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adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

adj. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

unsound

adj. not sound financially; "unsound banking practices"

imperfect

adj. not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"

bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed

adj. confined to bed (by illness)

anile

adj. of or like a feeble old woman

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

doddering, doddery, gaga, senile

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

rubbishy, trashy

adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"

fallible, frail, imperfect, weak

adj. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

unhealthy

adj. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"

ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

ill

adj. not good; unfriendly or harmful: "ill manners"; "ill repute"; "ill deeds"; "ill will"; "an ill wind"

bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed

adj. confined to bed (by illness)

anile

adj. of or like a feeble old woman

debilitated, enfeebled, infirm, seedy

adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

doddering, doddery, gaga, senile

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

feeble, lame

adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

faint, feeble

adj. lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

delicate

adj. exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"

angry

adj. severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"

arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy

adj. of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief"

asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy

adj. relating to breathing with a whistling sound

blebby, blistery

adj. covered with small blisters

puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid

adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"

inflammatory

adj. characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response"

cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous

adj. having an ulcer or canker

carbuncled, carbuncular

adj. afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle

carious

adj. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay

caseous

adj. of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike

chilblained

adj. having chilblains; "her poor chilblained hands"

colicky, flatulent, gassy

adj. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological

adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"

edematous, dropsical

adj. swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid

enlarged

adj. larger than normal; "enlarged joints"

gangrenous, mortified

adj. suffering from tissue death

ingrowing, ingrown

adj. growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail"

membranous, membrane-forming

adj. characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane); "membranous gastritis"

sallow, sickly

adj. unhealthy looking

sunburned, sunburnt

adj. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

varicose

adj. abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins"

healthy

adj. having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"

robust

adj. sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction; "a robust body"; "a robust perennial"

hardy

adj. able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"

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