figurative. Deficient in substance or quality; poor; unsubstantial. Of immaterial things: Wanting in fulness, breadth, force, or vigour; scanty…

Of speech, style, emotion, a person, etc.: vapid, insipid; lacking in substance or interest; thin, feeble, weak.

Wanting in energy, force, or effect. of actions, feelings, utterances, etc.

Washy, weak, tender.

figurative. Weak, insipid; lacking distinctness or precision. Now rare.

Faded, feeble, languishing, withered. Obsolete.

figurative. (Cf. halting, adj. 2, lame, adj. 2.)

figurative. Weak, enfeebled, poor, paltry. Obsolete (except as directly figurative from 1).

Loose from emptiness; not filled out or plump; shrunken, spare; flabby, hollow. of immaterial things. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Of a person, a person's character, actions, emotions, etc.: not easily inspired to emotion, exhibiting only faint interest or concern; spiritless…

figurative. Something insipid or bland. Now rare.

Of no power or strength; weak, feeble. Obsolete.

Lacking vigour; feeble, weak, powerless.

Bloodless, wanting blood; anæmic.

Of immaterial things: Wanting vigour and nervous energy, limp, feeble.

Weakened by the addition of water or other attenuating admixture, watered down; reduced in strength, colour, or characteristic quality.

figurative. Feeble or poor in quality or character; trifling, unsubstantial, trashy, ‘milk-and-watery’. †Also rarely as int. = pish! tush!

attributive or as adj. Made of or resembling tiffany; figurative ‘transparent’, flimsy.

Weak. Obsolete.

Of ideas, the mind, etc.: unsound, lacking rigour.

= faint, adj. in various senses.

Not robust (in various senses).

figurative. Feeble, weak, faint; lacking intensity, vigour, or robustness; timorous, without spirit.

Pale; sickly; thin; feeble.

Having no muscles; lacking muscle. Also figurative.

appositive or as adj. Weak, feeble.

colloquial. Cf. weed, n.1 9. gen. Lacking potency, impact, or significance; weak, flimsy; insubstantial; (with reference to sound) lacking…

Rather feeble; weakly.

Resembling, made of, or consisting of paper; having or suggestive of the texture or consistency of paper; thin, flimsy.