 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infirm
adjective
1: confined to bed (by illness) [syn: {bedfast}, {bedridden}, {bedrid},
{sick-abed}]
2: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman";
"her body looked sapless" [syn: {decrepit}, {debile}, {feeble},
{sapless}, {weak}, {weakly}]
3: lacking firmness of will or character or purpose; "infirm of
purpose; give me the daggers" - Shakespeare
4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: {debilitated},
{enfeebled}, {seedy}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infirm \In*firm"\, verb (used with an object) [L. infirmare : cf. F. infirmer.]
To weaken; to enfeeble. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infirm \In*firm"\ ([i^]n*f[~e]rm"), adjective [L. infirmus: cf. F.
infirme. See {In-} not, and {Firm}, adjective]
1. Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an
infirm constitution.
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. --Shak.
2. Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. ''An infirm
judgment.'' --Burke.
Infirm of purpose! --Shak.
3. Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious.
He who fixes on false principles treads or infirm
ground. --South.
Syn: Debilitated; sickly; feeble; decrepit; weak; enfeebled;
irresolute; vacillating; imbecile.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "infirm":
Adamic, abulic, 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
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