Word Meanings - ENERVOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lacking nerve or force; enervated.

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• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• NERVELESS
  1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
• ENERVATIVE
  Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• FORCEMENT
  The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
• ENERVATE
  To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
• LACKBRAIN
  One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
• FORCED
  Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
• NERVED
  Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray. (more info) 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
• LACKEY
  An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar , the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored
• FORCELESS
  Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.
• NERVE-SHAKEN
  Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
• LACKER
  One who lacks or is in want.
• LACK
  1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. Shak.
• NERVE
  One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each
• LACKADAISY
  An expression of languor.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• POLACK
  A Polander. Shak.
• SHOEBLACK
  One who polishes shoes.
• JET-BLACK
  Black as jet; deep black.
• BLACK-JACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
• BLACK LEAD
  Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.