Word Meanings - DECREPITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECREPITUDE)

• Caducity
• Decline
• infirmity
• decrepitude
• senility
• decadence
• transience
• delicacy
• Weakness
• Debility
• feebleness
• enervation
• dilution
• impairment
• languor
• imbecility
• frailty
• faintness
• inconclusiveness
• worthlessness
• want

Related words: (words related to DECREPITUDE)

• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• TRANSIENCE; TRANSIENCY
  The quality of being transient; transientness.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• DECADENCE; DECADENCY
  A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.' Sir W. Scott.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• LANGUOR
  1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess.
• DEBILITY
  The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the
• DECLINER
  He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
• DECREPITUDE
  The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
• LANGUOROUS
  Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.
• DELICACY
  1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton. 2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
• CADUCITY
  Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.
• INFIRMITY
  1. The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak. 2. A personal frailty or failing;
• DECLINED
  Declinate.
• FAINTNESS
  1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control. 2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser. 3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description. 4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness;
• SENILITY
  The quality or state of being senile; old age.
• INDELICACY
  The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.