Word Meanings - INFIRM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. Shak. 2. Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." Burke. Infirm of purpose! Shak. 3. Not solid

Additional info about word: INFIRM

1. Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. Shak. 2. Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." Burke. Infirm of purpose! Shak. 3. Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious. He who fixes on false principles treads or infirm ground. South. Syn. -- Debilitated; sickly; feeble; decrepit; weak; enfeebled; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFIRM)

• Decrepit
• Infirm
• weak
• crippled
• superannuated
• effete
• broken-down
• enfeebled
• tottering
• aged
• Feeble
• Wretched
• poor
• frail
• debilitated
• dull
• forceless
• puny
• nerveless
• enervated
• faint
• infirm
• incomplete
• vain
• fruitless
• scanty
• pitiable
• Invalid
• sick
• weakly
• feeble
• Weak
• powerless
• debile
• fragile
• incompact
• inadhesive
• pliant
• oft
• tender
• milk and water
• flabby
• flimsy
• wishy washy
• destructible
• watery
• diluted
• imbecile
• inefficient
• spiritless
• foolish
• injudicious
• unsound
• undecided
• unconfirmed
• irrepressible
• wavering
• ductile
• easy
• malleable
• unconvincing
• inconclusive
• vapid
• pointless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INFIRM)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to INFIRM)

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  The constellation Aquarius.
• WATERWORT
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• WATER SHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WATER RAT
  The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• MALLEABLE
  Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. --
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• WATER CRAKE
  The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
• WATER DOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• WATERIE
  The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
• MALLEABLEIZE
  To make malleable.
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.