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impotent
Ineffective, powerless, or helpless
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  1. Ineffective, powerless, or helpless
  2. Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless:
  3. (Obsolete) Lacking self-restraint.
fragile
Physically weak; frail; delicate
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  1. Physically weak; frail; delicate
  2. Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
  3. Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
puny
(Chiefly Southern US) Sickly; ill.
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  1. (Chiefly Southern US) Sickly; ill.
  2. Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak:
strengthless
Being weak or powerless, lacking strength.
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  1. Being weak or powerless, lacking strength.
  2. Having no special abilities or talents, lacking strengths.
infirm
Not strong or stable; shaky:
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  1. Not strong or stable; shaky:
  2. Not stable, firm, or sound; frail; shaky, as a structure
  3. Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
ineffectual
Not effectual; not producing or not able to produce the desired effect
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  1. Not effectual; not producing or not able to produce the desired effect
  2. Not producing the desired effect:
  3. Lacking forcefulness or effectiveness; inadequate or incompetent:
insufficient
Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate
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  1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate
  2. Not sufficient; inadequate.
decrepit
Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
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  1. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
delicate
Requiring careful or tactful treatment:
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  1. Requiring careful or tactful treatment:
  2. Easily broken or damaged:
  3. Marked by sensitivity of discrimination:
flimsy
Light, thin, and insubstantial:
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  1. Light, thin, and insubstantial:
  2. Thin and easily broken or damaged; poorly made and fragile; frail
  3. Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
fragile
Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
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  1. Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
  2. Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
  3. Physically weak; frail; delicate
frail
Easily led astray; morally weak.
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  1. Easily led astray; morally weak.
  2. Easily broken, shattered, damaged, or destroyed; fragile; delicate
  3. Slender and delicate; not robust; weak
infirm
Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
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  1. Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
  2. Not strong or stable; shaky:
  3. Not stable, firm, or sound; frail; shaky, as a structure
insubstantial
Lacking substance; not real or strong.
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  1. Lacking substance; not real or strong.
  2. Not firm or solid; weak or flimsy:
  3. Not solid or firm; weak or flimsy
puny
(Chiefly Southern US) Sickly; ill.
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  1. (Chiefly Southern US) Sickly; ill.
  2. Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak:
unsound
Not true or logically valid; fallacious:
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  1. Not true or logically valid; fallacious:
  2. Not safe, firm, or solid; insecure
  3. Not dependably strong or solid.
unsubstantial
(Archaic) Alternative form of insubstantial.
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  1. (Archaic) Alternative form of insubstantial.
  2. Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
  3. Not solid or heavy; flimsy; light
weak
(Gram.) Expressing variation in tense by the addition of an inflectional suffix rather than by internal change of a syllabic vowel; regular (Ex.: talk, talked, talked)
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  1. (Gram.) Expressing variation in tense by the addition of an inflectional suffix rather than by internal change of a syllabic vowel; regular (Ex.: talk, talked, talked)
  2. Lacking aptitude or skill:
  3. Lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing:
faint
Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak:
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  1. Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak:
  2. Feeling weak and dizzy, as if about to swoon
  3. Lacking clarity or distinctness:
weak
Lacking intensity or strength; faint:
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  1. Lacking intensity or strength; faint:
  2. Lacking aptitude or skill:
  3. Lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing:
flimsy
Light, thin, and insubstantial:
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  1. Light, thin, and insubstantial:
  2. Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
  3. Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
insubstantial
Not solid or firm; weak or flimsy
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  1. Not solid or firm; weak or flimsy
  2. Not firm or solid; weak or flimsy:
  3. Lacking substance; not real or strong.
tenuous
Not substantial; slight; flimsy
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  1. Not substantial; slight; flimsy
  2. Weak or insubstantial; flimsy:
  3. Precarious or insecure:
unsubstantial
(Archaic) Alternative form of insubstantial.
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  1. (Archaic) Alternative form of insubstantial.
  2. Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
  3. Lacking basis in fact.
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  • Their government was feeble and corrupt.

  • While the fools looked for my car nearby, I, in spite of excruciating pain, managed to escape their feeble efforts to find me.

  • Daylight was making a feeble attempt to break through the heavy cloud cover.

  • All who reach old age must lose their strength and become like him, feeble and gray.

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