Adj. nonadhesive,
immiscible,
incoherent, detached, loose,
baggy,
slack,
lax,
relaxed,
flapping, streaming,
disheveled,
segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated, uncombined, noncohesive
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. inertness, dullness,
inertia, # vis inertiae,
inertion, inactivity,
torpor,
languor,
quiescence,
latency, inaction,
passivity, mental inertness,
sloth,
inexcitability,
irresolution,
obstinacy,
permanence, rare gas,
paraffin, noble metal, unreactivity
Adj. inert, inactive, passive,
torpid,
sluggish, dull, heavy, flat,
slack,
tame, slow,
blunt, unreactive, lifeless, dead, uninfluential,
latent,
dormant,
smoldering, unexerted
Adv. inactively, in suspense, in abeyance
N. slowness,
languor,
drawl,
creeping,
lentor,
retardation,
slackening, delay, claudication|, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back,
lingerer,
loiterer,
sluggard,
tortoise,
snail, poke*,
dawdle V. move slowly,
creep,
crawl,
lag,
slug,
drawl,
linger,
loiter,
saunter,
plod,
trudge, stump along,
lumber,
trail,
drag,
dawdle,
grovel, worm one's way, steal along, job on, rub on, bundle on,
toddle,
waddle,
wabble,
slug,
traipse,
slouch,
shuffle,
halt,
hobble,
limp, caludicate|,
shamble, flag,
falter,
trotter,
stagger,
mince, step short, march in slow time, march in funeral procession, take one's time, hang fire,
retard,
relax,
slacken, check, moderate, rein in,
curb,
reef, strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail, put on the drag, apply the brake, clip the wings, reduce the speed, slacken speed, slacken one's pace, lose ground
Adj. slow,
slack,
tardy,
dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely,
deliberate, gradual, insensible,
imperceptible,
glacial,
languid,
sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade|,
snail-like,
creeping, reptatorial
Adv. slowly, leisurely,
piano,
adagio,
largo,
larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little,
seriatim,
consecutively Phr. dum roma deliberat saguntum perit, at a glacial pace, 3, motion conjoined with force
N. insulation, # incombustible material, noncombustible material, fire retardant, flame retardant, fire wall, fire door,
incombustibility,
incombustibleness, extincteur, fire annihilator,
amianth,
amianthus, earth-flax, mountain-flax,
asbestos,
fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company, pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder,
bucket, fire hose, fire hydrant, backfire, firebreak,
trench, aerial water bombardment, wet blanket, fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, co-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride,
foam, sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system, fire bucket, sand bucket, fire alarm, evacuation alarm, fire code, fire regulations, fire, fire inspector, code violation,
citation V. go out, die out, burn out,
fizzle,
extinguish, damp,
slack,
quench,
smother, put out, stamp out,
douse,
snuff, snuff out, blow out,
fireproof, flameproof
Phr. fight fire with fire
N. unwillingness, indisposition, indisposedness, disinclination,
aversation,
nolleity,
nolition,
renitence,
renitency,
reluctance, indifference, backwardness, slowness, want of alacrity, want of readiness,
indocility,
scrupulousness,
scrupulosity, qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience, delicacy,
demur,
scruple,
qualm,
shrinking,
recoil,
hesitation,
fastidiousness,
averseness, dissent,
refusal V. be unwilling,
nill, dislike,
grudge,
begrudge, not be able to find it in one's heart to, not have the stomach to,
demur, stick at,
scruple,
stickle, hang fire, run rusty,
recoil,
shrink,
swerve,
hesitate, avoid,
oppose, dissent, refuse
Adj. unwilling, not in the vein,
loth,
loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed,
averse,
reluctant, not content,
adverse,
laggard, backward, remiss,
slack, slow to, indifferent,
scrupulous,
squeamish,
repugnant, restiff|, restive,
demurring, unconsenting, involuntary
Adv. unwillingly,
grudgingly, with a heavy heart, with a bad, with an ill grace, against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain, invita minerva, a contre caeur, malgre soi, in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself, nolens volens,
perforce, under protest, no, not for the world, far be it from me
N. insufficiency,
inadequacy, inadequateness,
incompetence,
deficiency, imperfection,
shortcoming,
paucity,
stint,
scantiness, none to spare, bare subsistence,
scarcity,
dearth, want, need, lack, poverty,
exigency,
inanition,
starvation, famine,
drought,
dole,
mite,
pittance, short allowance, short commons, half rations, banyan day,
emptiness, poorness,
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity,
ebb tide, low water, "a beggarly account of empty boxes",
indigence,
insolvency V. be insufficient, not suffice, come short of run dry, want, lack, need, require,
caret, be in want, live from hand to mouth, render insufficient, drain of resources,
impoverish,
stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake
Adj. insufficient, inadequate, too little, not enough, unequal to, incompetent, "weighed in the balance and found wanting",
perfunctory, deficient, wanting,
&c. v, imperfect, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill- stored, ill-off,
slack, at a low ebb, empty,
vacant, bare, short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of, denuded of, dry, drained, unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished,
unreplenished, unfed, unstored,
untreasured, empty-handed,
meager, poor, thin,
scrimp,
sparing,
spare,
stinted,
starved,
starving, halfstarved, famine-stricken,
famished,
jejune,
scant,
scarce, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price,
scurvy,
stingy, at the end of one's tether, without resources, in want, in debt
Adv. insufficiently, in default of, for want of, failing
Phr. semper avarus eget
N. inactivity, inaction,
inertness,
obstinacy,
lull,
quiescence,
rust,
rustiness, idleness, remissness,
sloth,
indolence,
indiligence,
dawdling, ergophobia,
otiosity, dullness,
languor, segnity|, segnitude|,
lentor,
sluggishness,
procrastination,
torpor,
torpidity,
torpescence,
stupor,
somnolence,
drowsiness,
nodding,
oscitation,
oscitancy,
pandiculation,
hypnotism,
lethargy, statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids, sleep,
slumber, sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep,
morpheus, somnus,
coma,
trance, ecstasis, dream,
hibernation,
nap,
doze,
snooze,
siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks,
snore,
hypnology, dull work,
pottering,
relaxation, castle of indolence,
lullaby,
sedative,
tranquilizer,
hypnotic, sleeping pill,
relaxant,
anaesthetic, general anaesthetic,
torpedo, idler,
drone,
droil,
dawdle,
mopus, do-little faineant,
dummy, sleeping partner, afternoon farmer, truant : bummer|,
loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker,
lounger, lazzarone,
lubber,
lubbard, slow coach, opium eater, lotus eater,
slug, lag|,
sluggard,
slugabed,
slumberer,
dormouse,
marmot, waiter on providence, fruges consumere natus
V. be inactive, do nothing, move slowly, let the grass grow under one's feet, take one's time,
dawdle,
drawl,
droil,
lag, hang back,
slouch,
loll,
lollop,
lounge,
poke,
loaf,
loiter, go to sleep over, sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile, take it easy, take things as they come, lead an easy life,
vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness, loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence, waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time, burn daylight, waste the precious hours, idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time, spend time in, take time in,
peddle,
piddle,
potter,
pudder,
dabble, faddle fribble,
fiddle-faddle,
dally,
dilly-dally, sleep,
slumber, be asleep,
hibernate, oversleep, sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse, sleep soundly,
heavily,
doze, drowze,
snooze,
nap, take a nap, dream, snore one's best, settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep, doze off, drop off, fall asleep, drop asleep, close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids, weigh down the eyelids, get sleep,
nod,
yawn, go to bed, turn, get some z's, stack z's,
languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire,
relax, render idle,
sluggardize,
mitigate Adj. inactive, motionless, unoccupied unbusied,
indolent,
lazy,
slothful, idle,
lusk, remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine, heavy, dull,
leaden,
lumpish,
exanimate, soulless, listless,
drony,
dronish, lazy as ludlam's dog,
dilatory,
laggard,
lagging, slow,
rusty,
flagging,
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle,
pottering,
shilly-shally, sleeping,
&c. v,
asleep, fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep, in a sound sleep, sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose, in the arms of morpheus, in the lap of morpheus,
sleepy, sleepful,
dozy,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent,
lethargic,
lethargical, somnifacient, statuvolent, statuvolic, heavy, heavy with sleep,
napping,
somnific,
somniferous,
soporous,
soporific,
soporiferous,
hypnotic,
balmy,
dreamy, unawakened, unawakened,
sedative Adv. inactively, at leisure
Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws, "bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease", "better 50 years of europe than a cycle of cathay", "idly busy rolls their world away", "the mystery of folded sleep", "the timely dew of sleep", "thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep", "tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep"
N. laxity,
laxness, looseness,
slackness,
toleration, freedom,
anarchy,
interregnum,
relaxation,
loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule,
license,
licentiousness,
insubordination,
lynch law,
nihilism, reign of violence,
dethronement,
deposition,
usurpation,
abdication V. be -lax, laisser faire, laisser aller, hold a loose rein, give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to,
tolerate,
relax, misrule, go beyond the length of one's tether, have one's swing, have one's fling, act without instructions, act without authority, act outside of one's authority, act on one's own responsibility, usurp authority,
dethrone,
depose,
abdicate Adj. lax, loose,
slack, remiss, weak,
relaxed,
licensed,
reinless,
unbridled,
anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic
