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  • 61weak — I (decrepit) adjective ailing, atonic, brittle, debilitated, delicate, dilapidated, dim, enervated, enfeebled, faint, feeble, flaccid, fragile, impotent, infirm, passive, spent, timorous, unfortified, unhealthy, vulnerable, wasted II (deficient)… …

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  • 62phantom — Synonyms and related words: Barmecidal, Barmecide, Dracula, Frankenstein, Masan, Wolf man, air, airy, airy nothing, apparent, apparition, apparitional, appearance, asomatous, astral, astral spirit, autistic, banshee, bodiless, bogey, bogeyman,… …

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  • 63empty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. void, deplete, exhaust, evacuate, drain, deflate, discharge, unload. See contraction, ejection. adj. hollow, vacant, depleted, untenanted, devoid; hungry; vain, insubstantial, useless, foolish,… …

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  • 64ethereal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. airy, delicate, light, tenuous, fragile, fairy; heavenly, celestial, empyreal. See insubstantiality, heaven.Ant., earthly, mortal. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Delicate] Syn. airy, fragile,… …

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  • 65feeble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See weakness. Ant., strong. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking strength] Syn. fragile, puny, strengthless, infirm; see weak 1 , 2 . 2. [Lacking effectiveness] Syn. impotent, ineffectual,… …

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  • 66flimsy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sleazy, gossamer, fragile; tenuous, unsubstantial; feeble, weak. See weakness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of physical things ] Syn. slight, frail, weak, gauzy, sleazy, sheer, shoddy,… …

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  • 67immaterial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsubstantial, incorporeal, disembodied; impalpable, intangible; irrelevant, impertinent; trivial, unimportant, inconsequential. See insubstantiality, unimportance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …

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  • 68light — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. airy (see levity); frivolous, jesting, jocular, lightsome; giddy, dizzy, flighty; wanton; nimble, agile; flippant, pert, insouciant; humorous; trivial. See cheerfulness, unimportance, impurity,… …

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  • 69spiritual — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, fleshless; di vine, exalted, celestial, holy, sacred; religious; inspired, supernatural, virtuous, platonic; occult. See insubstantiality, piety, virtue. II… …

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  • 70bodiless — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. incorporeal, insubstantial, spiritual; see immaterial 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Having no body, form, or substance: discarnate, disembodied, immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, metaphysical,… …

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