infirmity 音標拼音: [ɪnf'ɚmɪti]
n . 虛弱,病身,疾病
虛弱,病身,疾病
infirmity n 1 :
the state of being weak in health or body (
especially from old age ) [
synonym : {
infirmity }, {
frailty }, {
debility },
{
feebleness }, {
frailness }, {
valetudinarianism }]
Infirmity \
In *
firm "
i *
ty \,
n .;
pl . {
Infirmities }. [
L .
infirmitas :
cf .
F .
infirmite .
See {
Infirm },
a .]
1 .
The state of being infirm ;
feebleness ;
an imperfection or weakness ;
esp .,
an unsound ,
unhealthy ,
or debilitated state ;
a disease ;
a malady ;
as ,
infirmity of body or mind .
[
1913 Webster ]
'
T is the infirmity of his age . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A personal frailty or failing ;
foible ;
eccentricity ;
a weakness or defect .
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1913 Webster ]
Will you be cured of your infirmity ? --
Shak .
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1913 Webster ]
A friend should bear his friend '
s infirmities .
--
Shak .
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1913 Webster ]
The house has also its infirmities . --
Evelyn .
Syn :
Debility ;
imbecility ;
weakness ;
feebleness ;
failing ;
foible ;
defect ;
disease ;
malady .
See {
Debility }.
[
1913 Webster ]
220 Moby Thesaurus words for "
infirmity ":
abnormality ,
abulia ,
acute disease ,
advanced age ,
advanced years ,
affection ,
affliction ,
age of retirement ,
ailment ,
allergic disease ,
allergy ,
an incurable disease ,
anility ,
atrophy ,
bacterial disease ,
bad habit ,
besetting sin ,
birth defect ,
blemish ,
blight ,
bug ,
cachexia ,
cachexy ,
caducity ,
cardiovascular disease ,
catch ,
chronic disease ,
chronic ill health ,
circulatory disease ,
complaint ,
complication ,
condition ,
congenital defect ,
cowardice ,
crack ,
danger ,
debilitation ,
debility ,
decay ,
decline of life ,
declining years ,
decrepitude ,
defect ,
defection ,
deficiency ,
deficiency disease ,
deformity ,
degenerative disease ,
delicacy ,
delicate health ,
desultoriness ,
disability ,
disease ,
disorder ,
distemper ,
dotage ,
drawback ,
eld ,
elderliness ,
endemic ,
endemic disease ,
endocrine disease ,
enervation ,
enfeeblement ,
epidemic disease ,
exhaustion ,
failing ,
failure ,
faintheartedness ,
faintness ,
fault ,
faute ,
fear ,
feeblemindedness ,
feebleness ,
flaw ,
foible ,
fragility ,
frailness ,
frailty ,
functional disease ,
fungus disease ,
gastrointestinal disease ,
genetic disease ,
green old age ,
hale old age ,
handicap ,
hazard ,
healthlessness ,
hereditary disease ,
hoary age ,
hole ,
hypochondria ,
hypochondriasis ,
iatrogenic disease ,
ill ,
ill health ,
illness ,
imperfection ,
inadequacy ,
incapacity ,
indisposition ,
infectious disease ,
infirm old age ,
infirmity of age ,
insecurity ,
insipidity ,
insolidity ,
instability ,
insubstantiality ,
invalidism ,
invalidity ,
kink ,
languishing ,
languishment ,
little problem ,
longevity ,
malady ,
malaise ,
moral flaw ,
morbidity ,
morbidness ,
morbus ,
muscular disease ,
neurological disease ,
nutritional disease ,
occupational disease ,
old age ,
oldness ,
organic disease ,
pandemic disease ,
pathological condition ,
pathology ,
peakedness ,
pensionable age ,
peril ,
perilousness ,
plant disease ,
pliability ,
poor health ,
precariousness ,
problem ,
protozoan disease ,
psychosomatic disease ,
respiratory disease ,
ricketiness ,
rift ,
ripe old age ,
risk ,
riskiness ,
rockiness ,
second childhood ,
secondary disease ,
seediness ,
senectitude ,
senility ,
senior citizenship ,
shakiness ,
shiftiness ,
shiftingness ,
shortcoming ,
sickishness ,
sickliness ,
sickness ,
signs ,
slipperiness ,
snag ,
softness ,
something missing ,
speculativeness ,
spinelessness ,
superannuation ,
symptomatology ,
symptomology ,
symptoms ,
syndrome ,
taint ,
the downward slope ,
the golden years ,
the pip ,
ticklishness ,
treacherousness ,
treachery ,
unauthenticity ,
unauthoritativeness ,
undependability ,
unfaithworthiness ,
unfirmness ,
unhealthiness ,
unreliability ,
unsolidity ,
unsoundness ,
unsteadfastness ,
unsteadiness ,
unsturdiness ,
unsubstantiality ,
unsureness ,
untrustworthiness ,
unwholesomeness ,
urogenital disease ,
vale of years ,
valetudinarianism ,
vapidity ,
vice ,
virus disease ,
vulnerable place ,
wasting ,
wasting disease ,
wateriness ,
weak link ,
weak point ,
weak side ,
weak will ,
weak -
mindedness ,
weakening ,
weakliness ,
weakness ,
white hairs ,
wishy -
washiness ,
worm disease
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