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
N. disease, illness, sickness, ailing &c. "all the ills that flesh is heir to",
morbidity, morbosity|,
infirmity,
ailment, indisposition,
complaint, disorder,
malady, distemper, distemperature,
visitation, attack,
seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health,
invalidation,
cachexy,
cachexia,
atrophy,
marasmus,
indigestion,
dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption,
palsy,
paralysis,
prostration,
taint,
pollution,
infection,
sepsis,
septicity,
infestation,
epidemic,
pandemic,
endemic,
epizootic,
murrain, plague,
pestilence,
pox,
sore,
ulcer,
abscess,
fester,
boil,
pimple,
wen,
carbuncle, gathering,
imposthume, peccant humor, issue,
rot,
canker, cold sore, fever sore,
cancer,
carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease,
malignancy,
tumor,
caries,
mortification, corruption,
gangrene,
sphacelus,
sphacelation,
leprosy,
eruption,
rash, breaking out, fever, temperature,
calenture, inflammation,
ague,
angina pectoris,
appendicitis, asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone,
black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning,
bloodstroke,
bloody flux,
brash,
breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis,
bronchocele,
canker rash, cardialgia,
carditis,
endocarditis,
cholera,
asphyxia,
chlorosis,
chorea,
cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema,
erysipelas,
exanthem,
exanthema,
gallstone,
goiter,
gonorrhea, green sickness,
grip,
grippe,
influenza, flu,
hay fever,
heartburn,
heaves, rupture,
hernia,
hemorrhoids, piles,
herpes,
itch, king's evil,
lockjaw,
measles,
mumps, polio,
necrosis,
pertussis,
phthisis,
pneumonia,
psora,
pyaemia,
pyrosis,
quinsy,
rachitis,
ringworm,
rubeola, st. vitus's dance,
scabies,
scarlatina,
scarlet fever,
scrofula,
seasickness,
struma, syntexis,
tetanus,
tetter,
tonsillitis,
tonsilitis,
tracheocele, trachoma,
trismus,
varicella, varicosis,
variola,
water qualm, whooping cough,
yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system,
idiocy,
insanity, martyr to disease,
cripple, "the halt the lame and the blind",
valetudinary,
valetudinarian,
invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber,
pathology,
etiology,
nosology,
anthrax, bighead,
blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague,
glanders,
mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill,
rinderpest,
virus,
bacterium,
bacteria, dna virus, rna virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, cmv, human immunodefficiency virus, hiv
V. be ill,
ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have,
droop, flag,
languish,
halt,
sicken,
peak, pine,
gasp, keep one's bed, feign sickness, lay by, lay up, take a disease, catch a disease, catch an infection, break out
Adj. diseased,
ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick,
squeamish, poorly,
seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined,
bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather,
valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid,
morbose, healthless, infirm,
chlorotic, unbraced,
drooping,
flagging,
lame,
crippled,
halting, morbid,
tainted,
vitiated,
peccant,
contaminated, poisoned,
tabid,
mangy,
leprous,
cankered,
rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core,
withered,
palsied,
paralytic,
dyspeptic, luetic,
pneumonic,
pulmonic,
phthisic,
rachitic, syntectic, syntectical,
tabetic,
varicose, touched in the wind,
broken-winded,
spavined,
gasping,
hors de combat, weakly,
weakened,
decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health,
cranky, in a bad way, in danger,
prostrate,
moribund,
morbific,
epidemic,
endemic,
zymotic Vice Roget’s Thesaurus §945 N. vice, evil-doing, evil courses,
wrongdoing, wickedness,
viciousness, iniquity,
peccability,
demerit, sin, adam|, old adam, offending adam, immorality, impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast,
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity,
depravity,
pollution, hardness of heart,
brutality, corruption,
knavery,
profligacy,
flagrancy,
atrocity,
cannibalism, lesbianism, sadism,
infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh,
frailty, imperfection, error, weak side,
foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect,
deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime,
criminality,
sinner,
brothel, gambling house, joint*, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house
V. be vicious, sin, commit sin, do amiss,
err,
transgress, misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself,
misdo,
misbehave, fall,
lapse, slip,
trip,
offend,
trespass, deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue, take a wrong course, go astray, hug a sin, hug a fault, sow one's wild oats, render vicious,
demoralize,
brutalize, corrupt
Adj. vicious, sinful,
sinning, wicked,
iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal,
naughty, incorrect,
unduteous,
undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores,
indecorous, unseemly, improper,
dissolute,
profligate,
scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful,
recreant,
reprehensible,
blameworthy,
uncommendable, discreditable,
disreputable, sadistic, base,
sinister,
scurvy, foul, gross,
vile, black, grave, facinorous|,
felonious,
nefarious, shameful,
scandalous, infamous,
villainous, of a deep dye,
heinous,
flagrant,
flagitious,
atrocious,
incarnate,
accursed,
mephistophelian,
satanic,
diabolic,
hellish,
infernal,
stygian,
fiendlike, hell-born,
demoniacal,
devilish,
fiendish, miscreated,
misbegotten,
demoralized, corrupt,
depraved,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
ill-conditioned,
malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue,
unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity,
incorrigible,
irreclaimable,
obdurate,
reprobate, past praying for,
culpable,
reprehensible,
unjustifiable,
indefensible,
inexcusable,
inexpiable,
unpardonable,
irremissible, weak,
frail,
lax, infirm, imperfect,
indiscrete,
demoralizing,
degrading Int. o tempora, o mores, phr, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, "the trail of the serpent is over them all", "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down", [Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to the agent.]