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. ugliness,
deformity,
inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry,
inconcinnity,
distortion,
squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, "spretae injuria formae",
eyesore, object,
witch,
hag, figure, sight,
fright,
monster, dog, woofer, pig,
octopus,
specter,
scarecrow, harridan|, satyr|,
toad,
monkey,
baboon, caliban,
aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum"
V. be ugly, look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces, render ugly,
deface, disfigure, defigure|,
distort,
blemish, soil
Adj. ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned) 849, homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen,
unbeauteous, unbeautiful,
beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless,
misshapen, misproportioned,
monstrous,
gaunt,
dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned,
crooked, hard featured, hard visaged,
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored,
ill-looking,
unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly,
uncouth, stiff,
rugged, rough, gross, rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety,
gawky,
lumping,
lumpish,
lumbering,
hulky,
hulking,
unwieldy,
squalid,
haggard,
grim, grim faced, grim visaged,
grisly,
ghastly, ghost like, death like,
cadaverous,
grewsome,
gruesome,
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding, repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre, grody, grody to the max,
horrid,
horrible,
shocking, foul,
dingy,
gaudy, disfigured, discolored