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Achilles heel

Main Entry:
Achilles heel []
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vulnerable point
Synonyms: chink in the armor, damaging weakness, defect, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, handicap, heel of Achilles, susceptibility, tender spot, vulnerability, weak link, weak spot, weakness
Main Entry: frailty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weakness, flaw
Synonyms: Achilles heel, blemish, daintiness, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccability, peccadillo, shortcoming, solecism, suscept, weak point
Antonyms: firmness, strength
Main Entry: weakness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: defect, proneness
Synonyms: Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability
Antonyms: strength, strong point
Main Entry: weak point
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weakness
Synonyms: Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, foible, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability
Main Entry: chink in one's armor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weak point
Synonyms: Achilles' heel, failing, foible, frailty, shortcoming, soft spot, underbelly, vulnerable place, weak link, weak side, weakness
Main Entry: fatal flaw
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: major character weakness
Synonyms: Achilles' heel, failing flaw, hamartia, tragic flaw, weak point
Main Entry: tragic flaw
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: character flaw
Synonyms: Achilles' heel, chink in one's armor, fatal flaw, tragic flaw, vulnerability, weak point
Related Words
Main Entry: weakness
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
adynamic, aidless, amyous, armless, asthenic, bald, broken, careless, childish, cold, cranky, crazy, creachy, crippled, dead beat, debile, decayed, decrepit, defenseless, demoralized, diffuse, disabled, disjointed, disqualified, docile, done up, drooping, dry, dull, effeminate, effete, elumbated, emasculate, evanid, exhausted, faint, faintish, fatherless, feeble, feminate, flaccid, flatulent, flimsy, forcible, frail, frigid, gimcrack, gingerbread, good for nothing, graveled, harmless, helpless, hypophrenic, hyposthenic, imbecile, impotent, improcreant, inadequate, inapt, incapable, incompetent, indefensible, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inexact, infirm, inoperative, irrelevant, jejune, laid low, laid on one's back, laid on the shelf, lame, languid, languishing, lax, loose, lustless, marrowless, meable, meager, monotonous, nerveless, nervous, nugatory, null and void, on its last legs, palsied, paralytic, paralyzed, parvipotent, pithless, poor, powerless, pregnable, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puerile, pulled down, queachy, radiolucent, rambling, relaxed, rickety, rotten, rudderless, sapless, seedy, shaken, shaky, shattered, shattery, short, sinewless, sketchy, slack, slight, slip, soft, spent, strengthless, tame, the worse for wear, tottering, trashy, unable, unaided, unapt, unarmed, unassisted, unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to, unendowed, unfit, unfitted, unfortified, unfriended, unhinged, uninfluential, unnerved, unqualified, unstrengthened, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsupported, untenable, unvaried, vapid, vincible, washy, wasted, waterlogged, weak, weak as a baby, weak as a cat, weak as a chicken, weak as a child, weak as a rat, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, weak as water, weak as water, weaponless, weather, withered, without a leg to stand upon, womanly, wommacky, worn
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Weakness.
Category: 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT
Synonyms:
-nouns
weakness; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity., anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood., declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain., reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards., softling, weakling; infant; youth.
-verbs
be weak; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave., render weak; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.
-adjectives
weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved, sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous., soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly., frail, fragile, shattery; flimsy, unsubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering; broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.
-phrases
non sum qualis eram ["I am not as I used to be" (Latin)].
Antonyms: strength
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