infirm

Meaning

    1. Weak or ill, not in good health.
    2. Irresolute; weak of mind or will.
    3. Frail; unstable; insecure.

Synonyms

weak
feeble
frail
sick
🤢
decrepit
sickly
decayed
faint
weakly
old
🧓
disabled
unstable
unsteady
insecure
fragile
delicate
debile
ailing
breakable
brittle
drooping
droopy
exhausted
fatigued
flabby
frangible
groggy
ill
🤢
indecisive
languid
languorous
patient
prostrate
rickety
run-down
sapless
slight
sluggish
tired
😫
washy
wonky
aged
inconstant
valetudinarian
debilitated
invalid
irresolute
pithless
anile
loose
debatable
weakened
piping
powerless
precarious
amputee
wobbly
wabbly

incertain

shaky
crippling
choppy
slack

top heavy

unobjective
sufferer
weak-willed
toothless
tottering
tottery
unassertive
unassured
uncertain
undecided
undependable
unestablished
unfixed
unguaranteed
unhealthy
equivocal
erratic
unreliable
enfeebled
faltering
characterless
feckless

effete

chancy
floating
flukey
fluky
doubtful
diffident
unsure
unverifiable
helpless
iffy
unwell
incapacitated
Frequency

42k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈfɜːm/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
infirme
In summary

From Middle English infirme, from Latin infirmus (“weak, feeble”).

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