N. weakness,
debility,
atony,
relaxation,
languor,
enervation,
impotence,
infirmity,
effeminacy,
feminality,
fragility,
flaccidity, inactivity,
anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy,
invalidation,
decrepitude,
asthenia,
adynamy,
cachexy,
cachexia,
sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards,
softling,
weakling, infant, youth
V. be weak, drop,
crumble, give way,
totter,
tremble,
shake,
halt,
limp,
fade,
languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave, render weak,
weaken,
enfeeble,
debilitate,
shake, deprive of strength,
relax,
enervate,
eviscerate,
unbrace, unnerve,
cripple, unman,
cramp, reduce,
sprain, strain, blunt the edge of,
dilute,
impoverish,
decimate,
extenuate, reduce in strength, reduce the strength of, mettre de l'eau dans son vin
Adj. weak, feeble, debile|,
impotent,
relaxed, unnerved,
&c. v,
sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic,
asthenic, nervous, soft,
effeminate,
feminate, womanly,
frail,
fragile,
shattery,
flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread,
rickety, creaky,
creaking,
cranky, craichy,
drooping,
tottering, broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky,
palsied,
decrepit,
languid, poor, infirm,
faint,
faintish, sickly, dull,
slack, evanid|, spent,
short-winded,
effete,
weather-beaten, decayed,
rotten, worn,
seedy,
languishing, wasted,
washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless,
defenseless, cantilevered (support) 215, on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless
Phr. non sum qualis eram, 3, power in operation
Woman Roget’s Thesaurus §374 N. woman, she, her, female,
petticoat, # feminality,
muliebrity,
womanhood,
womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel,
dame,
madam, madame,
mistress, mrs. lady, donna belle,
matron,
dowager,
goody,
gammer, frau,
frow, vrouw,
rani, good woman, good wife,
squaw, wife,
matronage,
matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette,
suffragist,
nymph,
wench,
grisette,
girl, sissy,
betty, cot betty,
cotquean,
henhussy, mollycoddle,
muff, old woman,
hen,
bitch,
sow,
doe,
roe,
mare, she goat, nanny goat, tabita,
ewe, cow,
lioness,
tigress,
vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen,
consanguinity,
paternity,
lesbian,
dyke Adj. female, she-,
feminine, womanly,
ladylike,
matronly,
maidenly, wifely,
womanish,
effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic
Phr. "a perfect woman nobly planned", "a lovely lady garmented in white", das ewig-weibliche zieht uns hinan, "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected", es de vidrio la mujer, "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen", "the beauty of a lovely woman is like music", varium et mutabile semper femina, "woman is the lesser man"
Pron. she, her, hers
N. cowardice,
pusillanimity,
cowardliness,
timidity,
effeminacy,
poltroonery, baseness,
dastardness,
dastardy, abject fear,
funk, dutch courage, fear, white feather, faint heart, cold feet *, yellow streak*,
coward,
poltroon,
dastard,
sneak,
recreant, shy cock, dunghill cock,
coistril,
milksop, white liver, lily liver,
nidget, one that cannot say "bo" to a goose,
slink, bob acres, jerry sneak,
alarmist, terrorist|,
pessimist,
runagate V. quail, be cowardly, be a coward,
funk, cower,
skulk,
sneak,
flinch,
shy, fight shy,
slink, turn tail, run away, show, the white feather
Adj. coward,
cowardly, fearful,
shy,
timid,
timorous,
skittish, poor- spirited, spiritless, soft,
effeminate,
weak-minded, infirm of purpose,
weak-hearted,
fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted,
pigeon-hearted, white- livered,
lily-livered,
milk-livered,
milksop,
smock-faced, unable to say "bo" to a goose,
dastard,
dastardly, base,
craven,
sneaking,
dunghill,
recreant, unwarlike, unsoldier-like, "in face a lion but in heart a deer",
unmanned,
frightened Int. sauve qui peut, [French: every man for himself], devil take the hindmost, phr, ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out, degeneres animos timor arguit
