Thesaurus:weak

Thesaurus

weak

English

Adjective

Sense: lacking in strength, force or fortitude

Synonyms

• anemic
• breakable
• broken-down
• damaged
• debilitated
• decrepit
• delicate
• dickless
• effete
• enervated
• enfeebled
• exhausted
• faint
• feeble
• flimsy
• fragile    [⇒ thesaurus]
• frail
• harmed
• hurt    [⇒ thesaurus]
• impaired
• impotent
• infirm
• injured
• languid
• low
• powerless
• prostrated
• prostrate
• puny
• raddled
• resistless
• sapped
• slightsoft
• softened
• susceptible
• tender
• tired
• torpid
• unresistant
• vincible
• vulnerable
• wasted
• weakened
• weary
• weedy (Britain, Ireland)
• wimpy
• worn out
• yielding

Antonyms

• able-bodied
• athletic
• beefy
• brawny
• capable    [⇒ thesaurus]
• competent
• durable
• firm
• fit
• fortified
• hale
• hardened
• hardy
• healthy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• invincible
• mighty
• muscular
• powerful
• puissant
• robust
• rugged
• sinewy
• sound    [⇒ thesaurus]
• stalwart
• stout
• strapping    [⇒ thesaurus]
• strengthened
• strong
• sturdy
• toughened
• tough
• vigorous
• virile
• vitalized

Hyponyms

• depleted    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deteriorated    [⇒ thesaurus]
• scrawny    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:weak spot

Further reading

• Wiktionary:Roget_Thesaurus_Classification

  Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations

  Section VIII. Causation

  2. Connection between Cause and Effect

  160. “weakness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

• “weak” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.