| Main Entry: | debility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incapacity, weakness |
Synonyms: |
decrepitude, disease, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, faintness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, languor, malaise, sickliness, unhealthiness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
Antonyms: |
ability, capability, health, strength, vigor |
| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
Synonyms: |
airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
Antonyms: |
coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | exhaustion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
Synonyms: |
burnout, collapse, consumption, debilitation, debility, enervation, expenditure, fatigue, feebleness, lassitude, prostration, weariness |
Antonyms: |
energy, liveliness, readiness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
Synonyms: |
brain fag, burnout, debility, dullness, enervation, ennui, exhaustion, faintness, fatigation, feebleness, heaviness, languor, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, overtiredness, weakness, weariness |
Antonyms: |
energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor |
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical defect |
Synonyms: |
blemish, debility, deficiency, demerit, imperfection, infirmity, lack, pimple, shortcoming, weak point, weakness, zit |
Antonyms: |
perfection, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | feebleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of strength; ineffectiveness |
Synonyms: |
debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustion, flimsiness, frailness, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectualness, infirmity, infirmness, insignificance, insufficiency, lameness, languor, lassitude, malaise, senility, sickliness, unhealthiness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
ability, effectiveness, health, heartiness, power, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | frailty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, flaw |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, blemish, daintiness, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccability, peccadillo, shortcoming, solecism, suscept, weak point |
Antonyms: |
firmness, strength |
| Main Entry: | infirmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, sickness |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flu, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unwellness, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
good health, healthiness, robustness, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | malady |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, bug*, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder, distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, ill health, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus |