Lacking in vitality, strength, or spirit; cowardly; feeble; anaemic. Cf. blood, n. 4.

Of things: Having little strength; weak, frail, fragile; slight, slender. Of a fortress, etc.: Having little power of resistance. Obsolete.

= languishing, adj. (in various senses). Cf. languorous, adj.

Of a thing: slow-moving; weak, lacking force.

Pertaining to, or affected with, green sickness.

Deprived or destitute of animation or courage; spiritless.

transferred and figurative. Wanting in firmness, strictness, nervous energy, or the like.

transf. and fig. Lacking in vigour, strength, or spirit. colloq.

(a) having suffered brain death; (b) slang (originally U.S.) lacking in (esp. intellectual) vigour; feeble-minded, stupid, vapid; (also)…