| Main Entry: | peeve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something strongly disliked |
Synonyms: |
annoyance, bother, gripe, nuisance, pest, sore point, vexation |
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attraction, desire, like, love, want |
| 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 |
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strength, strong point |
| Main Entry: | bone of contention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference of opinion |
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altercation, apple of discord, argument, beef, conflict, controversy, debate, disagreement, dispute, grounds for war, issue, matter at hand, point in question, problem, sore point, tender spot |
| Main Entry: | red flag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning signal |
Synonyms: |
casus belli, delicate subject, red light, red rag, sore point |
| Main Entry: | soft spot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | raw spot |
Synonyms: |
exposed nerve, in the gut, nerve ending, raw, raw nerve, sore point, sore spot, tender spot, the quick, weakness, where it hurts, where one lives |
| 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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