Synonyms for enfeebled

Most common

feeble · impotent · decrepit · infirm · effete · enervated

All synonyms

Adjective

Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.

Example sentences

• feeble The feeble patient is suffering from stomach cancer.
• impotent "Your army is impotent against mine!!" he laughed.
• decrepit I think that his uncle is a decrepit old man.
• effete The critics dismissed the film as an effete imitation of earlier, bolder works.
• enervated Tom felt too enervated to resist.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

weak¹

5 letters

faint¹

6 letters

wasted², feeble², infirm², effete²

7 letters

languid²

8 letters

weakened², impotent³, decrepit³

9 letters

enervated

11 letters

debilitated⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wasted² = 2 syllables).