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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disabled |
| Synonyms: | bedridden, broken-down, confined, crippled, debilitated, handicapped, helpless, hurt, immobilized, impaired, impotent, incapable, infirm, laid-up, lame, maimed, out of commission, out-of-action, paralyzed, powerless, sidelined, weak, weakened, wornout |
| Main Entry: | bedridden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick in bed |
| Synonyms: | ailing, disabled, flat on one's back, ill, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, laid up, prostrate |
| Main Entry: | crippled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disabled |
| Synonyms: | bedridden, broken, damaged, defective, deformed, enfeebled, game, gimp, halt, hamstrung, handicapped, harmed, hog-tied, housebound, impaired, incapacitated, laid up, lame, maimed, mangled, marred, mutilated, out of commission, paralyzed, sidelined |
| Antonyms: | healthy, walking |
| Main Entry: | decrepit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age |
| Synonyms: | aged, anile, antiquated, battered, bedraggled, broken-down, creaky, crippled, dilapidated, doddering, effete, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, haggard, incapacitated, infirm, insubstantial, old, quavering, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, senile, shabby, shaking, superannuated, tacky, threadbare, tired, tottering, tumble-down, unsound, used, wasted, weak, weakly, weather-beaten, worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy, young |
| 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: | game |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | debilitated |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bad, crippled, deformed, disabled, incapacitated, injured, lame, maimed, weak |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, working |
| Main Entry: | impotent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disabled; unable to perform action |
| Synonyms: | barren, crippled, dud, effete, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, forceless, frail, gutless, helpless, inadequate, incapable, incapacitated, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, infecund, infirm, nerveless, paper tiger, paralyzed, powerless, prostrate, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, weak |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, fertile, potent, productive, strong |
| Main Entry: | paralytic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impaired in movement |
| Synonyms: | diplegic, disabled, immobile, immobilized, inactive, incapacitated, insensible, lame, numb, palsied, palsified, paralyzed, paraplegic, powerless, quadriplegic |
| Antonyms: | healthy, uncrippled |
| Main Entry: | powerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak; unable |
| Synonyms: | blank, chicken*, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, disabled, disenfranchised, etiolated, feeble, frail, gutless, helpless, impotent, incapable, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inert, infirm, out of gas, paralyzed, passive, prostrate, subject, supine, tied, unarmed, unfit, vulnerable, wimp*, wishy-washy |
| Antonyms: | able, dominant, potent, powerful, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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