Infirmity Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-fûrmĭ-tē
A pathological condition of mind or body
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ailment
  2. complaint
  3. disease
  4. disorder
  5. ill
  6. illness
  7. malady
  8. sickness
The condition of being infirm or physically weak
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. debility
  2. decrepitude
  3. delicacy
  4. delicateness
  5. feebleness
  6. flimsiness
  7. fragileness
  8. fragility
  9. frailness
  10. frailty
  11. insubstantiality
  12. puniness
  13. unsoundness
  14. unsubstantiality
  15. weakliness
  16. weakness
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Words Related to Infirmity

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Infirmity Sentence Examples

  • We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.

  • He lost some of his influence at first after the death of Wladislaus, but continued to be the guiding spirit at court, till age and infirmity confined him almost entirely to his house in the last three years of his life.

  • As age and infirmity were telling upon him, the estates in 1389 appointed his second surviving son Robert, earl of Fife, afterwards duke of Albany, guardian of the kingdom.

  • It was a noble end to what, in spite of its besetting sin of infirmity of moral purpose, was a not ignoble life.

  • Moreover, with this masterful temper was joined an infirmity of purpose which ever let " I dare not wait upon I would," and which seized upon any excuse for postponing measures the principles of which he had publicly approved.

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