'Infirm' definitions:
Definition of 'infirm'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Infirm'
From: GCIDE
- Infirm \In*firm"\, v. t. [L. infirmare : cf. F. infirmer.] To weaken; to enfeeble. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Infirm'
From: GCIDE
- Infirm \In*firm"\ ([i^]n*f[~e]rm"), a. [L. infirmus: cf. F. infirme. See In- not, and Firm, a.]
- 1. Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution. [1913 Webster]
- A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Infirm of purpose! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious. [1913 Webster]
- He who fixes on false principles treads or infirm ground. --South.
- Syn: Debilitated; sickly; feeble; decrepit; weak; enfeebled; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infirm'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abulic,
- Adamic,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- afraid,
- ailing,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- anile,
- backsliding,
- cachectic,
- capricious,
- carnal,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- cowardly,
- crabbed,
- crippled,
- crumbling,
- dangerous,
- debilitated,
- decrepit,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- disintegrating,
- dizzy,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- drained,
- eccentric,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- erratic,
- erring,
- exhausted,
- failing,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- fallen,
- faltering,
- fast and loose,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- fleshly,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fossilized,
- fragile,
- frail,
- freakish,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- giddy,
- hazardous,
- healthless,
- ill,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- impure,
- in poor health,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indisposed,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- lame,
- languishing,
- lapsed,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- moribund,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mummylike,
- of easy virtue,
- on the decline,
- pale,
- palsied,
- papery-skinned,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- peccable,
- perilous,
- pliable,
- poor,
- poorish,
- postlapsarian,
- precarious,
- prodigal,
- provisional,
- rambling,
- ravaged with age,
- recidivist,
- recidivistic,
- reduced,
- reduced in health,
- restless,
- rickety,
- risky,
- rotten,
- rotten at,
- roving,
- run to seed,
- run-down,
- rusty,
- scatterbrained,
- senile,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shriveled,
- shuffling,
- sick,
- sickly,
- slippery,
- soft,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- stricken in years,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- timeworn,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- treacherous,
- unaccountable,
- unangelic,
- uncertain,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfirm,
- unfixed,
- ungodly,
- ungood,
- unhealthy,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unrighteous,
- unsaintly,
- unsettled,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsturdy,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- unvirtuous,
- unwell,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- virtueless,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wasted,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- with low resistance,
- withered,
- wizened,
- wobbling,
- wobbly