Word Meanings - CRIPPLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRIPPLED)

• Decrepit
• Infirm
• weak
• crippled
• superannuated
• effete
• broken-down
• enfeebled
• tottering
• aged
• Lame
• Weak
• faltering
• hobbling
• hesitating
• ineffective
• impotent
• halt
• defective
• imperfect

Related words: (words related to CRIPPLED)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• SUPERANNUATION
  The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• SUPERANNUATE
  1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne. 2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
• IMPOTENT
  Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble;
• DECREPITNESS
  Decrepitude. Barrow.
• INFIRMNESS
  Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.
• HOBBLY
  Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER