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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"

listless, languid, languorous

adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"

inert, lethargic, sluggish, torpid

adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"

frail, fragile

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

weak, infirm, feeble, decrepit, weakly

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

frail, delicate, fragile

adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

unable, ineffective, impotent, ineffectual

adj. lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes"

strained, labored, laboured, graceless

adj. lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"

heavy, weighty

adj. of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture"

damaged, broken

adj. physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"

faltering

adj. unsteady in speech or action

indecisive, hesitant, hesitating

adj. lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

stammering, stuttering

adj. unable to speak freely and easily

unacceptable, unsatisfactory

adj. "the pay is unsatisfactory and the conditions are unacceptable"

Synonyms (103)

afflicted, impaired

adj. mentally or physically unfit

apractic, apraxic

adj. having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder

autistic

adj. characteristic of or affected with autism; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children"

bad

adj. "has a bad back"

bandy, bowed, bandy-legged, bowleg, bowlegged

adj. have legs that curve outward at the knees

broken-backed

adj. (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth

halt, lame, crippled, halting

adj. disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

crookback, hunchback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked

adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column

disabled, handicapped, incapacitated

adj. markedly unable to function as a consequence of injury or illness

flat-footed

adj. suffering from fallen arches

gammy

adj. (British informal) sore or lame; "a gammy foot"

knock-kneed

adj. having the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart

lordotic, swayback, swaybacked

adj. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

maimed, mutilated

adj. having a part of the body crippled or disabled

unsound, out of condition

adj. unfit

paralytic, paralyzed, paralysed

adj. affected or subject to with paralysis

paraplegic

adj. suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord

anemic, anaemic

adj. lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated

adj. lacking strength or vigor

breakaway

adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"

faint, feeble

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

slight, insubstantial

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

flimsy, jerry-built

adj. of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

small, little

adj. (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

namby-pamby, spineless, wishy-washy

adj. weak in willpower, courage or vitality

pale

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

wan, pallid

puny

adj. inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"

flimsy, tenuous

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

thin

adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"

vulnerable

adj. capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the body"

washy

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

afflicted, impaired

adj. mentally or physically unfit

apractic, apraxic

adj. having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder

autistic

adj. characteristic of or affected with autism; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children"

bad

adj. "has a bad back"

bandy, bowed, bandy-legged, bowleg, bowlegged

adj. have legs that curve outward at the knees

broken-backed

adj. (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth

crookback, hunchback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked

adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column

disabled, handicapped, incapacitated

adj. markedly unable to function as a consequence of injury or illness

flat-footed

adj. suffering from fallen arches

gammy

adj. (British informal) sore or lame; "a gammy foot"

knock-kneed

adj. having the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart

lame, spavined

adj. (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint

lordotic, swayback, swaybacked

adj. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

maimed, mutilated

adj. having a part of the body crippled or disabled

unsound, out of condition

adj. unfit

paralytic, paralyzed, paralysed

adj. affected or subject to with paralysis

paraplegic

adj. suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord

Antonyms (3)

strong

adj. having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"

shallow, glib

adj. lacking intellectual depth: "glib generalizations"; "shallow people"

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