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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
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| Main Entry: | uselessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abortive, and unprofitable, bootless, dear at any price, disused, done with, effete, empty, fit for the dust, flat, fruitless, frustraneous, futile, gainless, good for nothing, ill, inadequate, inane, incompetent, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inoperative, inservient, inutile, kokshut, leading to no end, misembodied, misused, not required, not used, not worth a straw, not worth having, not worth powder and shot, obsolete, of no avail, of no earthly use, otiant, otiose, past work, priceless, profitless, stale, strange, superfluous, thrown away, unapplied, unavailing, uncalled for, unculled, undisposed of, unemployed, unessayed, unexceeded, unexercised, ungathered, unnecessary, unproductive, unprofitable, unsalable, unserviceable, unservient, unspent, unsubservient, untouched, untrodden, vain, valueless, worthless
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| Concept: | Celibacy. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
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celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood, bachelorship; misogamy, misogyny., virginity, pucelage; maidenhood, maidenhead., unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor; misogamist, misogynist; monogamist; monk., unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden, virgin, femme sole, old maid; bachelor girl, girl bachelor; nun.
-verbs
live single.
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unmarried, unwedded; wifeless, spouseless; single.
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| Antonyms: | marriage |
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| Concept: | Weakness. |
| Category: | 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
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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.
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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)].
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| Antonyms: | strength |
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| Concept: | Slowness. |
| Category: | 2. Degrees of Motion |
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slowness; languor (inactivity); drawl; creeping, lentor., retardation; slackening; delay (lateness); claudication., jog trot, dog trot; mincing steps; slow march, slow time, slow motion., slow goer, slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail; poke [U.S.]; dawdle (inactive).
-verbs
move slowly; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, claudicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire (be late)., retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.
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slow, slack; tardy; dilatory (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; reptatorial; stop-action.
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slowly; leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace; in slow time, in slow motion, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud passibus aequis [Vergil]., gradually; gradatim; by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little; step by step, one step at a time; inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim; consecutively.
-phrases
dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit; at a glacial pace.
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| Antonyms: | velocity |
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