frailtynoun
uk/ˈfreɪl.ti/us/ˈfreɪl.t̬i/[ U ] weakness and lack of health or strength:
Though ill for most of her life, physical frailty never stopped her from working.
[ C or U ] moral weakness:
Most of the characters in the novel exhibit those common human frailties - ignorance and greed.
Tolerant of human frailty in whatever form, she almost never judged people.
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptibility
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- wraith
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