Synonyms and Antonyms of infirmity
1
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
- an 18th-century quack who specialized in those mysterious infirmities that are known only to the idle rich
affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, malady, sickness, trouble
contagion, contagious disease
contagium, infection
attack, bout, fit, spell
debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness
malaise, matter, pip
epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague
2
the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor
- a period of infirmity left the athlete completely out of shape
asthenia, debilitation, debility, delicacy, enervation, enfeeblement, faintness, feebleness, fragility, frailness, frailty, languidness, languor, listlessness, lowness, weakness, wimpiness
decay, decrepitude
breakdown, collapse, prostration
exhaustion, fatigue, lassitude, weariness
defenselessness, helplessness, impotence, impuissance, powerlessness
effeteness, softness, tenderness
disablement, incapacitation, invalidism
damage, harm, hurt, impairment, injury
energy, vitality
brawniness, fitness, heftiness, huskiness, lustiness, muscularity, virility
hardness, ruggedness, stoutness, sturdiness, toughness
health, healthiness, soundness, wellness
