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| Main Entry: | paralyzed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insensible |
| Synonyms: | crippled, disabled, helpless, inactive, incapacitated, inert, nerveless, paralytic, stupefied, torpid, unmoving, benumbed |
| Main Entry: | paralyze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | immobilize |
| Synonyms: | appall, arrest, astound, bemuse, benumb, close, daunt, daze, deaden, debilitate, demolish, destroy, disable, disarm, enfeeble, freeze, halt, incapacitate, knock out, lame, nonplus, numb, petrify, prostrate, shut down, stun, stupefy, transfix, weaken, anesthetize, bring to grinding halt, make inert, make nerveless, palsy, stop dead |
| Antonyms: | incite, mobilize, stimulate |
| Main Entry: | crippled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disabled |
| Synonyms: | bedridden, broken, damaged, defective, deformed, game, halt, handicapped, harmed, impaired, incapacitated, lame, maimed, mutilated, out of commission*, paralyzed, enfeebled, gimp, hamstrung, hog-tied, housebound, laid up, mangled, marred, sidelined |
| Antonyms: | healthy, walking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disabled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incapacitated |
| Synonyms: | broken-down, confined, decrepit, handicapped, helpless, hurt, incapable, infirm, lame, maimed, paralyzed, powerless, run-down, weakened, worn-out, wounded, wrecked, disarmed, hamstrung, laid-up, out-of-action, out-of-commission, sidelined, stalled |
| Antonyms: | able, healthy |
| Main Entry: | enervated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, worn out |
| Synonyms: | debilitated, deteriorated, done in, fatigued, feeble, incapacitated, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, limp, listless, paralyzed, prostrate, run-down, rusty, soft, spent, spiritless, tired, weak, weakened, devitalized, enfeebled, gone to seed, languorous, on the ropes, out of condition, out of gas, out of shape, prostrated, sapped, undermined, unnerved, vitiated, washed out |
| Antonyms: | active, animated, enthusiastic, lively, activated, energized, invigorated, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | helpless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incapable, incompetent; vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, destitute, disabled, exposed, feeble, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, impotent, inefficient, inexpert, infirm, invalid, over a barrel*, paralyzed, powerless, prostrate, shiftless, unable, unfit, unprotected, weak, basket-case, handcuffed, pinned, tapped, tapped out, up creek without paddle, with hands tied |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, competent, enterprising, independent, resourceful, skilled, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impotent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disabled; unable to perform action |
| Synonyms: | barren, crippled, dud, effete, enervated, feeble, frail, gutless, helpless, inadequate, incapable, incapacitated, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, infirm, nerveless, paper tiger*, paralyzed, powerless, prostrate, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, weak, enfeebled, forceless, infecund |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, fertile, potent, productive, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incapacitated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disabled |
| Synonyms: | bedridden, broken-down, confined, crippled, debilitated, handicapped, helpless, hurt, impaired, impotent, incapable, infirm, lame, maimed, out of commission*, paralyzed, powerless, weak, weakened, immobilized, laid-up, out-of-action, sidelined, wornout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not moving; lifeless |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, dead, dormant, down, dull, idle, immobile, impassive, impotent, inactive, inanimate, indolent, languid, lazy, leaden, listless, motionless, numb, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, powerless, quiescent, quiet, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, static, still, stolid, torpid, unmoving, unresponsive, languorous, slumberous, unreactive |
| Antonyms: | active, alive, animated, lively, mobile, moving, working |
| Main Entry: | motionless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, not moving |
| Synonyms: | dead, deathly, firm, fixed, frozen, immobile, inanimate, inert, lifeless, numb, palsied, paralyzed, petrified, quiescent, quiet, spellbound, stable, stagnant, standing, static, stationary, steadfast, still, torpid, unmoved, unmoving, apoplectic, at a standstill, at rest, becalmed, deadlocked, halted, immotile, stalled, stock-still, transfixed, unmovable |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, lively, mobile, moving |
| Main Entry: | numb |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadened, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | aloof, apathetic, asleep, callous, casual, comatose, dazed, dead, detached, disinterested, frozen, indifferent, insensate, insensible, lethargic, listless, paralyzed, phlegmatic, remote, senseless, stupefied, torpid, unconcerned, unconscious, unfeeling, uninterested, anesthetized, benumbed, immobilized, incurious, insentient, numbed, stuporous, uncurious |
| Antonyms: | lively, responsive, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | palsied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crippled |
| Synonyms: | debilitated, disabled, diseased, helpless, paralytic, paralyzed, shaking, shaky, sick, weak, arthritic, atonic, neurasthenic, rheumatic, sclerotic, spastic, trembling, tremorous |
| Antonyms: | healthy, steady, walking |
| Main Entry: | paralytic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impaired in movement |
| Synonyms: | disabled, immobile, inactive, incapacitated, insensible, lame, numb, palsied, paralyzed, powerless, diplegic, immobilized, palsified, paraplegic, quadriplegic |
| Antonyms: | healthy, uncrippled |
| Main Entry: | powerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak; unable |
| Synonyms: | blank, chicken*, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, disabled, feeble, frail, gutless, helpless, impotent, incapable, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inert, infirm, paralyzed, passive, prostrate, subject, supine, tied, unarmed, unfit, vulnerable, wimp*, wishy-washy*, disenfranchised, etiolated, out of gas |
| Antonyms: | able, dominant, potent, powerful, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | torpid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lazy, slow |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, comatose, dopey*, dormant, drowsy, dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, latent, leaden, lethargic, listless, motionless, numb, paralyzed, passive, slothful, sluggish, sodden, somnolent, stagnant, static, stupid, benumbed, faineant, hebetudinous, languorous, lymphatic, slow-moving, slumberous, stuporous |
| Antonyms: | active, energetic, lively, moving, quick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unconscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not awake; out cold |
| Synonyms: | cold*, comatose, drowsy, flattened*, inanimate, inert, insensate, insensible, lethargic, numb, out, palsied, paralyzed, passed out*, put away*, raving, senseless, stunned, stupefied, torpid, zonked*, benumbed, blacked out, bombed, dead to the world, entranced, feeling no pain, in a trance, knocked, on the canvas, out like a light, swooning, tranced |
| Antonyms: | awake, aware, conscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indifferent, cold |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, boring, callous, dull, flat, frigid, glazed, inert, insensitive, insipid, lukewarm, numb, paralyzed, senseless, spiritless, stagnant, stale, still, tasteless, torpid, unfeeling, uninteresting, unresponsive, vapid, wooden, anesthetized, deadened, numbed |
| Antonyms: | active, animated, interested, live, living, responsive, spirited, warm |
| Main Entry: | prostrate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helpless |
| Synonyms: | beaten, defenseless, impotent, open, overcome, overwhelmed, paralyzed, powerless, reduced, weak, disarmed, overpowered |
| Notes: | prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back prostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down' supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Antonyms: | happy, self-sufficient, strong, successful |
| Main Entry: | prostrate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired, worn |
| Synonyms: | crippled, dejected, depressed, drained, drowned, exhausted, fallen, incapacitated, inconsolable, obedient, overcome, paralyzed, pooped*, spent*, submissive, subservient, worn out, disarmed, fagged, frazzled, immobilized, knocked over, tuckered, wearied |
| Antonyms: | hale, healthy, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bemuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse |
| Synonyms: | amaze, bewilder, daydream, daze, moon, muddle, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, pipe dream*, puzzle, stun, stupefy, addle, gather wool |
| Antonyms: | clear up, enlighten, explain, illuminate, tell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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