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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| 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)].
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| Antonyms: | strength |
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| Main Entry: | Achilles' heel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vulnerability |
| Synonyms: | chink in the armor, deficiency, frailty, handicap, soft underbelly, susceptibility, weakness |
| Main Entry: | adoration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intense love |
| Synonyms: | admiration, amore, ardor, attachment, crush, devotion, esteem, estimation, exaltation, glorification, hankering, honor, idolatry, idolization, infatuation, pash, passion, puppy love, reverence, shine*, veneration, weakness*, worship, worshipping, yen* |
| Antonyms: | abhorrence, detestation, disrespect, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
| Synonyms: | amore, ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen* |
| Antonyms: | animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking or inclination toward something |
| Synonyms: | affection, attraction, closeness, compatibility, cotton, cup of tea, druthers, fondness, good vibrations, leaning, partiality, rapport, same wavelength, simpatico, sympathy, thing*, weakness* |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
| Synonyms: | appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, craving, demand, fondness, gluttony, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ravenousness, relish, soft spot, stomach, sweet tooth, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | ardor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | avidity, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, feeling, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, heat, intensity, jazz, keenness, oomph, passion, pep talk, spirit, turn on, vehemence, verve, warmth, weakness*, zeal, zest, zing |
| Antonyms: | coldness, coolness, frigidity, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection, high regard |
| Synonyms: | affinity, amore, attraction, bond, case, crush, devotion, fidelity, fondness, friendship, hankering*, liking, love, loyalty, partiality, possessiveness, regard, shine*, tenderness, weakness, yen* |
| Antonyms: | alienation, animosity, aversion, dislike, divorce, enmity, estrangement, hate, hatred, opposition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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