Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. ----- All Nonfiction ----- Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Roget’s > International Thesaurus > 160. Weakness.   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · INDEX GUIDE Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.   Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations Section VIII. Causation 2. Connection Between Cause and Effect   160. Weakness.       NOUN: WEAKNESS &c. adj.; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence [See Impotence]; infirmity, effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity [See Inactivity].   [COMPARISONS] reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, house built on sand.   ANÆMIA, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood.   INVALIDATION; declension -, loss -, failure- of strength; delicacy, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy [rare], cachexia or cachexy, sprain, strain.   WEAKLING; softling [obs.]; infant [See Infant]; youth [See Youth].     VERB: BE WEAK &c. adj.; drop, crumble, give way, totter, dodder, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one foot in the grave.   RENDER WEAK &c. adj.; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, invalidate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman &c. (render powerless) [See Impotence]; cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l’eau dans son vin [F.].     ADJECTIVE: WEAK, feeble, debile [obs.]; impotent [See Impotence]; relaxed, unnerved &c. v.; sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous.   SOFT, effeminate, feminate [obs.], womanish.   FRAIL, fragile, shattery; flimsy, sleazy, gossamery, papery, unsubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, jerry-built, kucha or kachcha [Hind.], cranky; craichy [dial. Eng.], drooping, tottering, doddering [colloq.] &c. v.; broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, tumbledown; palsied [See Impotence]; decrepit.   UNSOUND, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly (disease) [See Disease]; dull, slack, evanid [obs.], languid; spent, shortwinded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, forworn [archaic], worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, wishy-washy [colloq.], laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.   UNSTRENGTHENED [See Strength], unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless, defenseless [See Impotence].   on its last legs; weak as a -child, - baby, - chicken, - cat, - rat, - rag; weak as -water, - water gruel, - ginger-bread, - milk and water; colorless [See Achromatism].     QUOTATIONS: Non sum qualis eram. At the hour when sick men mostly die and sentries on lonely ramparts stand to their arms.—Dunsany To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.—Milton CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · INDEX GUIDE   PREVIOUS NEXT     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com