NONATHLETIC Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

nonathletic

adjective

Definition of nonathletic

as in feeble

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Adjective

As Claudia, Curtis is perfectly biting and obnoxious, willing to insert herself into her ex-husband’s life for sport, stomping on his feeble boundaries.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
In 1937, Foyles started the Right Book Club, a rather feeble counterweight to Victor Gollancz’s Left Book Club.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of feeble

Adjective

The age-old advice of keeping your passwords secure and being wary of suspicious emails is more important than ever as hackers gain more sophisticated tools and use AI to find more of the internet’s weak points.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Analysts expect profits and assets to cover the dividend through weaker timber periods.

— Sebastien Chasse, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of weak

Adjective

Where Thomas is aloof and proud, Erika is prickly and sardonic, excellent tools for protecting a surprisingly fragile heart.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
My childhood school in Denmark hadn’t been turned to rubble but into an emotional battlefield, a psychological groundhog’s day of explosive arguments, violent brawls—and brief, fragile truces that always shattered when the home bell rung.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of fragile

Adjective

Leadership turmoil and a weakened state, as seen with the enfeebled late Ming, could well fuse with latent social tensions to produce an existential crisis.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
By 1877, the hope for Black equality met an enfeebled federal government that essentially permitted Jim Crow to run amok.

— Wesley Morris, New York Times, 9 June 2026

Definition of enfeebled

Adjective

Above its three-story concrete lower walls the gallery’s structure becomes a lean, self-supporting steel diagrid (think of a giant Erector Set) that wraps around the orbiter without interior walls or columns.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Centralizing institutional knowledge in a small number of staff produces a leaner organization.

— Erik Clarke, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of lean

Adjective

The Beach Boys haven’t performed since a pair of shows earlier this month in Cincinnati and Nashville where frontman Mike Love appeared incredibly frail, largely unable to sing or even stand.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
An individualized exercise and diet program can improve their chances of survival while on the waiting list, a study published Wednesday in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology found, with the frailest patients often benefiting the most.

— Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of frail

Adjective

Where Forte’s wimpy Kevin is a send-up of human fragility, Cena’s Buddy has the shatterproof ego of the rooster Foghorn Leghorn, who also happens to be Acme’s CEO.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
After this, the boy and his mother move to Lima, where the father sends him to a military academy, in an attempt to beat the wimpy artist out of him.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 May 2026

Definition of wimpy

Adjective

However, the Camille features a discreet and comfortable one-inch heel for a modern and slender silhouette that lifts the feet slightly off the ground.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Some of them have panoramic views of white windmills, which dot the coastline of the Taiwan Strait like slender sentries.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of slender

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