English-Thai Dictionary

frailty

N ความอ่อนแอ บอบบาง  ความ มี จิตใจ อ่อนแอ  infirmity debility strength vigour

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRAILTY

n. 1. Weakness of resolution; infirmity; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
God knows our frailty, and pities our weakness.
2. Frailness; infirmity of body.
3. Fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity; in this sense it has a plural.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FRAILTY

Frail "ty, n.; pl. Frailties. Etym: [OE. frelete, freilte, OF. fraileté, fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility. ]

 

1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and ] pities our weakness. Locke.

 

2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

 

Syn. -- Frailness; fragility; imperfection; failing.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

frailty

frail ty |ˈfrāltē ˈfreɪ (ə )lti | ▶noun ( pl. frailties ) the condition of being weak and delicate: the increasing frailty of old age. • weakness in character or morals: all drama begins with human frailty | you're too self-righteous to see your own frailties. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘weakness in morals ’): from Old French frailete, from Latin fragilitas, from fragilis (see fragile ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

frailty

frailty |ˈfreɪlti | ▶noun ( pl. frailties ) [ mass noun ] the condition of being weak and delicate: the increasing frailty of old age. • weakness in character or morals: all drama begins with human frailty | [ count noun ] : you're too self-righteous to see your own frailties. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘weakness in morals ’): from Old French frailete, from Latin fragilitas, from fragilis (see fragile ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

frailty

frailty noun 1 the frailty of old age: infirmity, weakness, enfeeblement, debility; fragility, delicacy; ill health, sickliness. ANTONYMS strength. 2 his many frailties: weakness, fallibility; weak point, flaw, imperfection, defect, failing, fault, shortcoming, deficiency, inadequacy, limitation. ANTONYMS strength.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

frailty

frailty noun 1 I hated my elders for their frailty: infirmity, infirmness, weakness, weakliness, feebleness, enfeeblement, debility, incapacity, impairment, indisposition; fragility, delicacy, slightness, puniness; illness, sickness, sickliness, ill health; decrepitude, dodderiness, shakiness; informal weediness. ANTONYMS strength; healthiness. 2 human beings are full of frailties: weakness, susceptibility, impressionability, vulnerability, fallibility; foible, weak point, flaw, blemish, imperfection, defect, failing, fault, shortcoming, deficiency, inadequacy, limitation; informal hang-up, chink in one's armour. ANTONYMS strength.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

frailty

frail ty /fréɪlti /名詞 複 -ties 1 U 弱いこと ; もろさ ; はかなさ ; 虚弱 ; 性格の弱さ, 意志薄弱, 誘惑に陥りやすいこと .2 U C (性格の弱さから来る )短所, 欠点, 過失 .