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71mental — adj 1. psychical, cerebral, rational, intellectual, psychological; conceptual, theoretical, abstract, noetic, noological, ideative; inward, metaphysical, subliminal, subconscious; thinking, reasoning, knowing, phrenic, perceptual, cognitive,… …
72weak — adj 1. frail, fragile, breakable, delicate; unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial; flimsy, jerry built, gimcrack, rickety, ramshackle, dilapidated, falling apart or down, tumble down, decayed, rotten. 2. feeble, puny, nonmuscular, nonathletic,… …
73neurasthenia — n. a set of psychological and physical symptoms, including fatigue, irritability, headache, dizziness, anxiety, and intolerance of noise. It can be caused by organic damage, such as a head injury, or it can be due to neurosis. Derivatives:… …
74gobbledegook — 1. The term, though not the concept, was unknown to Fowler (1926); Gowers (1965) knew it, but like Fowler put his material in an entry called jargon. Gobbledegook (or gobbledygook) is the extensive use of unintelligible jargon in printed… …
75palsied — [adj] crippled arthritic, atonic, debilitated, disabled, diseased, helpless, neurasthenic, paralytic, paralyzed, rheumatic, sclerotic, shaking, shaky, sick, spastic, trembling, tremorous, weak; concepts 314,485 Ant. healthy, steady, walking …
76neurasthenia — n. nervous debility or breakdown. ♦ neurasthenic, n. & a …
77psychasthenia — n. acute apathetic neurasthenic condition. ♦ psychasthenic, a …
78neurasthenia — [noor΄əs thē′nē ə, nyoor΄əs thē nē ə] n. [ModL: see NEURO & ASTHENIA] a former category of mental disorder, including such symptoms as irritability, fatigue, weakness, anxiety, and localized pains without apparent physical causes, thought to… …
79diseased person — noun a person suffering from an illness • Syn: ↑sick person, ↑sufferer • Derivationally related forms: ↑suffer (for: ↑sufferer) • Hypernyms: ↑unfortunate …
80neurasthenia — n. a general term for fatigue, anxiety, listlessness, etc. (not in medical use). Derivatives: neurasthenic adj. & n. Etymology: Gk neuron nerve + ASTHENIA …
