| Main Entry: | Achilles' heel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vulnerability |
Synonyms: |
chink in the armor, deficiency, frailty, handicap, soft underbelly, susceptibility, weakness |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
strength, strong point |
| Main Entry: | Achilles heel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vulnerable point |
Synonyms: |
chink in the armor, damaging weakness, defect, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, handicap, heel of Achilles, susceptibility, tender spot, vulnerability, weak link, weak spot, weakness |
| Main Entry: | chink in one's armor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak point |
Synonyms: |
Achilles' heel, failing, foible, frailty, shortcoming, soft spot, underbelly, vulnerable place, weak link, weak side, weakness |
| Main Entry: | tragic flaw |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | character flaw |
Synonyms: |
Achilles' heel, chink in one's armor, fatal flaw, tragic flaw, vulnerability, weak point |
| Main Entry: | weak spot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak area |
Synonyms: |
chink in one's armor, fatal flaw, vulnerable point, weak link, weak point, weak side, weakness |
| Main Entry: | weak point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, foible, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
cold, faint, loose, short, adynamic, aidless, amyous, armless, asthenic, bald, broken, careless, childish, cranky, crazy, creachy, crippled, dead beat, debile, decayed, decrepit, defenseless, demoralized, diffuse, disabled, disjointed, disqualified, docile, done up, drooping, dry, dull, effeminate, effete, elumbated, emasculate, evanid, exhausted, faintish, fatherless, feeble, feminate, flaccid, flatulent, flimsy, forcible, frail, frigid, gimcrack, gingerbread, good for nothing, graveled, harmless, helpless, hypophrenic, hyposthenic, imbecile, impotent, improcreant, inadequate, inapt, incapable, incompetent, indefensible, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inexact, infirm, inoperative, irrelevant, jejune, laid low, laid on one's back, laid on the shelf, lame, languid, languishing, lax, lustless, marrowless, meable, meager, monotonous, nerveless, nervous, nugatory, null and void, on its last legs, palsied, paralytic, paralyzed, parvipotent, pithless, poor, powerless, pregnable, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puerile, pulled down, queachy, radiolucent, rambling, relaxed, rickety, rotten, rudderless, sapless, seedy, shaken, shaky, shattered, shattery, sinewless, sketchy, slack, slight, slip, soft, spent, strengthless, tame, the worse for wear, tottering, trashy, unable, unaided, unapt, unarmed, unassisted, unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to, unendowed, unfit, unfitted, unfortified, unfriended, unhinged, uninfluential, unnerved, unqualified, unstrengthened, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsupported, untenable, unvaried, vapid, vincible, washy, wasted, waterlogged, weak, weak as a baby, weak as a cat, weak as a chicken, weak as a child, weak as a rat, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, weak as water, weak as water, weaponless, weather, withered, without a leg to stand upon, womanly, wommacky, worn
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| Concept: | Weakness. |
| Category: | 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
weakness; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity., anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood., declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain., reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards., softling, weakling; infant; youth.
-verbs
be weak; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave., render weak; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman (render powerless); 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.
-adjectives
weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved, sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous., soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly., frail, fragile, shattery; flimsy, unsubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering; broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.
-phrases
non sum qualis eram ["I am not as I used to be" (Latin)].
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Antonyms: |
strength |
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