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. irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision, indetermination, undetermination|, unsettlement, uncertainty,
demur,
suspense,
hesitating,
hesitation,
hesitancy,
vacillation,
changeableness,
fluctuation,
alternation,
caprice,
fickleness,
levity, legerete,
pliancy,
weakness,
timidity,
cowardice, half measures,
waverer, ass between two bundles of hay,
shuttlecock,
butterfly, wimp,
doughface V. be irresolute, hang in suspense, keep in suspense, leave "ad referendum", think twice about,
pause,
dawdle, remain neuter, dillydally,
hesitate,
boggle,
hover, dacker, hum and haw,
demur, not know one's own mind,
debate, balance, dally with, coquet with, will and will not, chaser-balancer, go halfway,
compromise, make a compromise, be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man, be afraid, "let 'i dare not' wait upon 'i would'",
falter, waver vacillate, change, retract,
fluctuate,
pendulate, alternate, keep off and on, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold,
shuffle,
palter,
blink,
trim Adj. irresolute, infirm of purpose,
double-minded,
half-hearted, undecided, unresolved, undetermined,
shilly-shally,
fidgety,
tremulous,
hesitating, off one's balance, at a loss,
vacillating, unsteady,
unsteadfast,
fickle, without ballast,
capricious, volatile,
frothy, light,
lightsome,
light-minded,
giddy, fast and loose, weak,
feeble-minded,
frail,
timid, wimpish, wimpy,
cowardly,
dough-faced,
facile,
pliant, unable to say "no",
easy-going,
revocable, reversible
Int. "how happy could i be with either!"
N. imperfection, imperfectness,
deficiency,
inadequacy,
peccancy,
immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose,
flaw,
gap, twist,
taint,
attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat,
blemish,
weakness,
half blood,
shortcoming,
drawback, seamy side,
mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay
V. be imperfect, have a defect, lie under a disadvantage, spring a leak, not pass muster, barely pass muster, fall short
Adj. imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective,
faulty, unsound,
tainted, out of order, out of tune,
cracked,
leaky, sprung,
warped,
lame, injured,
peccant,
frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short- handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary,
mediocre, average,
so-so, coucicouci, milk and water,
tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate,
decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable,
admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior,
second-rate, second-best,
one-horse Adv. almost &c, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough
Phr. surgit amari aliquid
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.]
