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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not stiff; weak |
| Synonyms: | bending, debilitated, drooping, droopy, ductile, enervated, exhausted, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flexuous, flimsy, floppy, impressible, infirm, languid, languishing, lax, lethargic, limber, listless, loose, plastic, pliable, pliant, relaxed, slack, soft, spent, spiritless, supple, tired, unsubstantial, weakened, wearied, worn out, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff, straight, strong, unbending |
| Main Entry: | limp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk with faltering step |
| Synonyms: | clump, dodder, falter, flag, gimp, halt, hitch, hobble, hop, lag, scuff, shamble, shuffle, stagger, stumble, teeter, totter, waddle, walk lamely |
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved |
| Synonyms: | angled, arced, arched, arciform, bowed, contorted, crooked, curvilinear, doubled over, drooping, droopy, hooked, humped, hunched, inclined, limp, looped, round, rounded, sinuous, slouchy, slumped, stooped, twined, twisted, warped, wilted |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | clump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make thumping noise |
| Synonyms: | barge, bumble, clatter, clomp, galumph, hobble, limp, lumber, plod, scuff, stamp, stomp, stumble, stump, thud, thump, tramp |
| Main Entry: | enervated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, worn out |
| Synonyms: | debilitated, deteriorated, devitalized, done in, enfeebled, fatigued, feeble, gone to seed, incapacitated, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, limp, listless, on the ropes, out of condition, out of gas, out of shape, paralyzed, prostrate, prostrated, run-down, rusty, sapped, soft, spent, spiritless, tired, undermined, unnerved, vitiated, washed out, weak, weakened |
| Antonyms: | activated, active, animated, energized, enthusiastic, invigorated, lively, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | exhausted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely tired |
| Synonyms: | all in, beat*, bleary, bone-weary, bushed, crippled, dead tired, dead*, debilitated, disabled, dog-tired, done for, done in, drained, effete, enervated, frazzled, had it, kaput, limp, out on one's feet, outta gas, prostrated, ready to drop, run-down, sapped, shot*, spent, tired out, wasted*, weak, weakened, wearied, worn, worn out |
| Antonyms: | animated, energetic, fresh, invigorated, lively, vigorous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | baggy, fat |
| Synonyms: | drooping, enervated, flaccid, flexuous, floppy, gone to seed, hanging, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, out of condition, out of shape, pendulous, rusty, sagging, shapeless, slack, sloppy, soft, tender, toneless, unfit, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, lean, slim, taut, thin, tight |
| Main Entry: | flaccid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drooping |
| Synonyms: | debilitated, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, flabby, flimsy, inelastic, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, nerveless, quaggy, sapped, slack, soft, weak, weakened |
| Antonyms: | firm, taut, tight |
| Main Entry: | halt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hesitate, stutter |
| Synonyms: | be defective, dither, falter, hobble, limp, pause, shilly-shally, stagger, stammer, stumble, vacillate, waver, whiffle, wiggle-waggle |
| Antonyms: | continue, speak smoothly |
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