| emasculate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. castrate, emasculate | deprive of strength or vigor.; "The Senate emasculated the law" |
| ~ weaken | lessen the strength of.; "The fever weakened his body" |
| v. (body) | 2. castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate | remove the testicles of a male animal. |
| ~ caponise, caponize | convert a cock into a capon. |
| ~ geld, cut | cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses).; "the vet gelded the young horse" |
| ~ desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix | make infertile.; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" |
| adj. | 3. cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish | having unsuitable feminine qualities. |
| ~ unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly | not possessing qualities befitting a man. |
| flimsy | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. flimsy, onionskin | a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies. |
| ~ typewriter paper, typing paper | writing paper suitable for use in a typewriter. |
| adj. | 2. flimsy | lacking solidity or strength.; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction" |
| ~ weak | wanting in physical strength.; "a weak pillar" |
| adj. | 3. flimsy, unconvincing | not convincing.; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile" |
| ~ unpersuasive | not capable of persuading. |
| ~ incredible, unbelievable | beyond belief or understanding.; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible" |
| adj. | 4. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin | lacking substance or significance.; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; "a fragile claim to fame" |
| ~ unimportant, insignificant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force. |
| frail | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. frail | the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds. |
| ~ weight unit, weight | a unit used to measure weight.; "he placed two weights in the scale pan" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. frail | a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs). |
| ~ basket, handbasket | a container that is usually woven and has handles. |
| adj. | 3. frail | physically weak.; "an invalid's frail body" |
| ~ delicate | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury.; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly" |
| ~ debile, infirm, sapless, weakly, decrepit, feeble, rickety, weak | lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" |
| ~ light-boned | having a bone structure that is light with respect to the surrounding flesh. |
| ~ weak | wanting in physical strength.; "a weak pillar" |
| adj. | 4. fallible, frail, imperfect, weak | wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings.; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" |
| ~ human | having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings.; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty" |
| adj. | 5. delicate, fragile, frail | easily broken or damaged or destroyed.; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft" |
| ~ breakable | capable of being broken or damaged.; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully" |
| weakling | | |
| n. (person) | 1. doormat, weakling, wuss | a person who is physically weak and ineffectual. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ namby-pamby | an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental. |
| ~ softie, softy | a person who is weak and excessively sentimental. |
| ~ crybaby, wimp, chicken | a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy. |
| weak | | |
| adj. | 1. weak | wanting in physical strength.; "a weak pillar" |
| ~ delicate | exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury.; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly" |
| ~ powerless | lacking power. |
| ~ anemic, anaemic | lacking vigor or energy.; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball" |
| ~ asthenic, debilitated, enervated, adynamic | lacking strength or vigor. |
| ~ feeble, faint | lacking strength or vigor.; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice" |
| ~ feeble, lame | pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument" |
| ~ flimsy | lacking solidity or strength.; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction" |
| ~ jerry-built, shoddy | of inferior workmanship and materials.; "mean little jerry-built houses" |
| ~ namby-pamby, spineless, wishy-washy, gutless | weak in willpower, courage or vitality. |
| ~ wan, pale, pallid, sick | (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" |
| ~ puny | inferior in strength or significance.; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses" |
| ~ vulnerable | capable of being wounded or hurt.; "vulnerable parts of the body" |
| ~ weakened | made weak or weaker. |
| ~ untoughened, tender | physically untoughened.; "tender feet" |
| adj. | 2. washy, watery, weak | overly diluted; thin and insipid.; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" |
| ~ dilute, diluted | reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity.; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid" |
| adj. | 3. light, unaccented, weak | (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress.; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable" |
| ~ unstressed | not bearing a stress or accent.; "short vowels are unstressed" |
| adj. | 4. weak | tending downward in price.; "a weak market for oil stocks" |
| ~ down | being or moving lower in position or less in some value.; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" |
| adj. | 5. weak | deficient or lacking in some skill.; "he's weak in spelling" |
| ~ unskilled | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency.; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" |
| adj. | 6. debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly | lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" |
| ~ frail | physically weak.; "an invalid's frail body" |
| adj. | 7. weak | (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection. |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
| ~ regular | in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle.; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties" |
| adj. | 8. weak | not having authority, political strength, or governing power.; "a weak president" |
| ~ powerless | lacking power. |
| adj. | 9. faint, weak | deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc.; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "weak colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"; "a weak pulse" |
| ~ perceptible | capable of being perceived by the mind or senses.; "a perceptible limp"; "easily perceptible sounds"; "perceptible changes in behavior" |
| adj. | 10. weak | likely to fail under stress or pressure.; "the weak link in the chain" |
| ~ fallible | likely to fail or make errors.; "everyone is fallible to some degree" |
| adj. | 11. weak | deficient in intelligence or mental power.; "a weak mind" |
| ~ stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity. |
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