Synonyms for frailty
ˈfreɪl ti, ˈfreɪ əl-frailty

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1. infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianismnoun

   the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)

   Synonyms:
   debility, infirmity, feebleness, valetudinarianism, vice, tenuity, frailness

2. frailty, vicenoun

   moral weakness

   Synonyms:
   feebleness, infirmity, debility, valetudinarianism, frailness, vice

Matched Categories

1. • Evil
   • Unfitness

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1. not table hamose

   Submitted by anonymous on December 17, 2019  

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1. frailtyadjective

   Synonyms:
   weakness, feebleness, infirmity, frailness

2. frailtyadjective

   Synonyms:
   fault, foible, defect, imperfection, failing, weak point, weak side, blind side

3. frailtyadjective

   Synonyms:
   liability to err, proneness error, want of moral strength

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1. frailtynoun

   Synonyms:
   fragility, frangibility, brittleness, imperfection, fault, defect

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1. List of paraphrases for "frailty":

   fragility, weakness, fragile

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How to use frailty in a sentence?

1. Seneca:

   It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

2. William Shakespeare:

   Frailty, thy name is woman

3. Voltaire:

   What is tolerance? it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.

4. George Takei:

   You understood human triumph and frailty equally well, and that is no easy feat. There was no one else like you, and you shall be missed. Rest with the heavens now, we losing legends R.I.P #LarryKin.

5. Daniel Stadler:

   It's hard to be 95 and not have some degree of frailty, it wasn't years between hospitalizations, but just months.