Enervated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enervate \E*ner"vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enervated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Enervating}.] [L. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr.
     enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See {Nerve}.]
     To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render
     feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral
     powers of.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.      --Dryden.
  
     Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  enervated \enervated\ adj.
     lacking strength or vigor.
  
     Syn: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enervated
       adj : lacking strength or vigor [syn: {adynamic}, {asthenic}, {debilitated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  143 Moby Thesaurus words for "enervated":
     apathetic, ausgespielt, benumbed, blase, bored, burned-out,
     cachectic, castrated, dead, debilitated, decadent, degenerate,
     demasculinized, deteriorated, devil, devitalized, disabled, dopey,
     dormant, drained, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, effeminized,
     effete, emasculate, emasculated, enfant terrible, enfeebled,
     eunuchized, eviscerated, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, failing,
     faint, fainting, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flagging,
     footsore, frail, frazzled, gelded, good and tired, healthless,
     heavy, hebetudinous, in poor health, inanimate, incapacitated,
     inert, infirm, invalid, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing,
     languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limb, limp, listless,
     lumpish, lustless, marrowless, mischief, moribund, nerveless, numb,
     pale, peaked, peaky, phlegmatic, pithless, played out, pooped,
     rapscallion, rascal, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health,
     rogue, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sapped, sated, scalawag,
     seedy, sickly, sinewless, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spent,
     spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tired,
     tired-winged, toilworn, torpid, unhealthy, unmanned, unnerved,
     unrefreshed, unrestored, unsexed, unsound, used up, valetudinarian,
     valetudinary, vegetable, vegetative, villain, wan, wasted,
     way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful,
     weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn,
     wilting, with low resistance, world-weary, worn, worn-down,
     worn-out