What are some opposite words for strength?
Antonyms for strength
strɛŋkθ, strɛŋθ, strɛnθstrength
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term strength.
Wiktionary
strengthnoun
strengthnoun
The quality of being strong.
It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
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weaknessstrengthnoun
The intensity of a force or power; potency.
Have the strength of ten men.
strengthnoun
The strongest part of something.
strengthnoun
A positive attribute.
We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
Synonyms:
potency, fortitude, power, expertiseAntonyms:
weakness
English Synonyms and Antonyms
strength
Power is the most general term of this group, including every quality, property, or faculty by which any change, effect, or result is, or may be, produced; as, the power of the legislature to enact laws, or of the executive to enforce them; the power of an acid to corrode a metal; the power of a polished surface to reflect light. Ability is nearly coextensive with power, but does not reach the positiveness and vigor that may be included in the meaning of power, ability often implying latent, as distinguished from active power; we speak of an exertion of power, but not of an exertion of ability. Power and ability include capacity, which is power to receive; but ability is often distinguished from capacity, as power that may be manifested in doing, as capacity is in receiving; one may have great capacity for acquiring knowledge, and yet not possess ability to teach. Efficiency is active power to effect a definite result, the power that actually does, as distinguished from that which may do. Competency is equal to the occasion, readiness prompt for the occasion. Faculty is an inherent quality of mind or body; talent, some special mental ability. Dexterity and skill are readiness and facility in action, having a special end; talent is innate, dexterity and skill are largely acquired. Our abilities include our natural capacity, faculties, and talents, with all the dexterity, skill, and readiness that can be acquired. Efficacy is the power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it; as, the efficacy of a drug. Efficiency is effectual agency, competent power; efficiency is applied in mechanics as denoting the ratio of the effect produced to the power expended in producing it; but this word is chiefly used of intelligent agents as denoting the quality that brings all one's power to bear promptly and to the best purpose on the thing to be done. Compare ADDRESS; DEXTERITY; SKILFUL.
Antonyms:
awkwardness, dulness, feebleness, helplessness, imbecility, impotence, inability, inaptitude, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, maladroitness, stupidity, unskilfulness, weaknessSynonyms:
ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, efficacy, efficiency, energy, expertness, faculty, force, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, susceptibility, talent
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
strength
Antonyms:
weakness, imbecility, feebleness, insolidity, insecurity, invalidity, frailty, delicacy, softness, flimsiness, hollownessSynonyms:
force, vigor, power, security, validity, vehemence, intensity, hardness, soundness, nerve, fibre, sinew
Princeton's WordNet
strengthnoun
the property of being physically or mentally strong
"fatigue sapped his strength"
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weaknessSynonyms:
long suit, military posture, military strength, force, enduringness, intensity level, military capability, effectiveness, strong point, specialty, persuasiveness, durability, posture, potency, metier, intensity, strong suit, forcefulness, speciality, forte, lastingnessmilitary capability, military strength, strength, military posture, posturenoun
capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
"we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture"
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weaknessSynonyms:
long suit, military posture, bearing, military strength, carriage, force, enduringness, intensity level, military capability, effectiveness, strong point, specialty, persuasiveness, attitude, durability, posture, potency, stance, position, metier, intensity, strong suit, forcefulness, speciality, forte, lastingnessforce, forcefulness, strengthnoun
physical energy or intensity
"he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
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weaknessSynonyms:
power, long suit, military posture, military strength, military group, durability, force, military force, intensity level, force play, military capability, violence, effectiveness, effect, specialty, force out, speciality, posture, potency, persuasiveness, metier, intensity, strong point, force-out, strong suit, personnel, forcefulness, military unit, forte, enduringness, lastingnessforte, strong suit, long suit, metier, specialty, speciality, strong point, strengthnoun
an asset of special worth or utility
"cooking is his forte"
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weaknessSynonyms:
long suit, military posture, military strength, fortissimo, force, metier, intensity level, military capability, specialism, potency, medium, distinctiveness, specialty, persuasiveness, effectiveness, specialisation, durability, posture, forcefulness, lastingness, specialness, peculiarity, intensity, strong point, strong suit, forte, speciality, enduringness, specializationpersuasiveness, strengthnoun
the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty
"the strength of his argument settled the matter"
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weaknessSynonyms:
long suit, military posture, military strength, force, enduringness, intensity level, military capability, effectiveness, strong point, specialty, persuasiveness, durability, posture, potency, metier, intensity, strong suit, forcefulness, speciality, forte, lastingnessintensity, strength, intensity levelnoun
the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
"he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength"
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weaknessSynonyms:
long suit, military posture, military strength, saturation, force, metier, intensity level, loudness, military capability, durability, enduringness, effectiveness, vividness, specialty, intensiveness, speciality, posture, potency, persuasiveness, volume, intensity, strong point, strong suit, forcefulness, forte, chroma, lastingnesspotency, effectiveness, strengthnoun
capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
"the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks"
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weaknessSynonyms:
potency, long suit, potentiality, military strength, dominance, force, authorization, enduringness, intensity level, effectuality, military capability, potence, specialty, effectiveness, potential, say-so, effectivity, persuasiveness, speciality, military posture, forcefulness, effectualness, metier, intensity, strong point, posture, strong suit, authority, forte, authorisation, durability, lastingnessstrengthnoun
the condition of financial success
"the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks"
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weaknessSynonyms:
long suit, military posture, military strength, force, enduringness, intensity level, military capability, effectiveness, strong point, specialty, persuasiveness, durability, posture, potency, metier, intensity, strong suit, forcefulness, speciality, forte, lastingnesslastingness, durability, enduringness, strengthnoun
permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
"they advertised the durability of their products"
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weaknessSynonyms:
long suit, intensity, military posture, military strength, force, enduringness, intensity level, military capability, effectiveness, strong point, specialty, persuasiveness, durability, posture, potency, metier, lastingness, strong suit, forcefulness, speciality, forte
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
strengthnoun
Antonyms:
debility, delicacy, fragility, weakness, impotency, frailty, infirmitySynonyms:
force, vigor, power, might, hardihood, potency, puissance, stamina, tenacity, toughness, durability, impregnability, invincibility, security, validity, conclusiveness, cogency, efficacy, support, stay, intensity, vividness, virility, vehemence, violence, force, impetuosity, fortitude, robustness, lustiness, stoutness, brawniness, muscularity, thew, sturdiness
How to use strength in a sentence?
I was personally frustrated at WHOs apparent great fear in moving from classifying from epidemic to pandemic, all the more so given all the evidence we had gathered from Chinas experience, historically, a great strength of the WHO was its expertise in consensus building. Here, we neededleadership, not merely consensus building. It is hard for some organizations to act.
Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.
On balance, data was still supportive of reasonable strength in the economy.
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
These groups likely therefore retain more independence than Syrian rebel groups that pledge allegiance to ISIS, at least in the near term, iSIS appears to dispatch advisers to support local recruitment in such areas in an attempt to bolster the local strength of these groups, but does not augment their ranks with its own forces.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2814 | strength | |
#10957 | weakness | |
#11794 | inability | |
#19210 | impotence | |
#20444 | stupidity | |
#23132 | insecurity | |
#29658 | incompetence | |
#31904 | incapacity | |
#35273 | softness | |
#38445 | inefficiency | |
#43200 | delicacy | |
#48500 | invalidity | |
#49680 | helplessness | |
#60970 | frailty | |
#76733 | awkwardness | |
#173706 | imbecility | |
#180741 | hollowness | |
#181826 | feebleness | |
#269750 | dulness |
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