Word Meanings - DECREPIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." Milton. Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley. Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. (more info) noiseless,

Additional info about word: DECREPIT

Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." Milton. Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley. Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. (more info) noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about quietly; de- +

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECREPIT)

• Effete
• Worn
• exhausted
• barren
• decrepit
• Infirm
• Weak
• lame
• unsound
• failing
• irresolute
• feeble
• enfeebled
• Superannuated
• timeworn
• passe'

Related words: (words related to DECREPIT)

• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• 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.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• FEEBLE
  OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• 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.
• BARRENWORT
  An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• DECREPITNESS
  Decrepitude. Barrow.
• INFIRMNESS
  Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
• DECREPITATE
  To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• INFIRMARIAN
  A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.
• IRRESOLUTE
  Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper. Syn. -- Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- Ir*res"o*lute*ly, adv. --
• ENFEEBLEMENT
  The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• INEXHAUSTIVE
  Inexhaustible. Thomson.
• INEXHAUSTIBLE
  Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words. Dryden. An inexhaustible store of anecdotes. Macaulay. -- In`ex*haust"i*ble*ness,