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Lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness.
Adjective
Feeble
"my legs are very feeble after the flu"
Having luster (soft glow); shining.
Syn: shiny, shining, glossy
lustrous
(of a person or animal) raised in a specified environment or way.
Adjective
Adjective
Welsh
She asked a question about Welsh history.
Noun: The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.
Similar: awareness, alertness, responsiveness
consciousness
"she failed to regain consciousness and died two days later"
Adjective: feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief.
Mournful
I couldn't bear the mournful look on her face.
I wish you'd stop playing that mournful music.
Verb: fail to care for properly.
Adjective: suffering a lack of proper care.
Neglected
The woman denied that she had neglected her child.
The buildings had been neglected for years.
Verb: (1) make or become less.
(2) make (someone or something) seem less impressive or valuable.
Diminished
His strength has diminished over the years.
Several unpopular decisions diminished the governor's popularity.
Adjective: (of a building, room, or piece of land) next to or joined with.
Similar: be next to
Adjoining
noun: an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
Similar: bliss, euphoria
Ecstasy
My father was in ecstasy when I won my scholarship.
Speechless with ecstasy, the little boys gazed at the toys.
verb: feel about or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands.
Grope
I had to grope my way up the dark stairs.
Ginny groped for her glasses on the bedside table.
chaise
The horse is pulling a chaise with two people inside.
adjective: cheerful and lighthearted.
jocund
"a jocund wedding party"
"Her jocund character made her the most popular girl in the county."
noun: a road or path forming a route between two places. a main road in a town.
Similar:street, road, roadway, avenue, boulevard
Thoroughfares
"These subterranean thoroughfares are literally everywhere beneath the city of London."
noun: the headgear used to control a horse,
Bridle
"He was leading a horse by the bridle."
noun: an attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain.
Similar: superiority, disdain
condescension
"a tone of condescension"
"In part, it reflected racist condescension."
adjective: pleasant to look at; attractive (typically used of a woman).
Similar: attractive, good-looking, nice-looking, beautiful, pretty
comely
His wife is a comely young woman.
Spring , after the noon, is harmonious and comely.
verb: work extremely hard or incessantly.
noun: exhausting physical labor.
Similar: hard work
Toil
"If you want knowledge, you must toil for it"
"a life of toil"
noun: a woman in charge of domestic and medical arrangements at a boarding school or other establishment.
matron
The matron, the house surgeon and the pupil each had a bedroom and a sitting room.
verb: tie or hold the arms or legs of (someone).
Similar: hold down
pinioned
"They were pinioned against the wall by the guard."
"His arms were pinioned to his sides."