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infirmity

UK/ɪnˈfɜːmɪti//ɪnˈfɜɹməti/

infirmity noun: feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

Noun

infirmity (countable and uncountable, plural infirmities)

  1. Feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
    • physical infirmity
    • mental infirmity
    Synonyms:
    caducity
  2. A moral weakness or defect.

infirmity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

infirmity in Hindi

feebleness
दुर्बलता durbaltā, अशक्तता aśaktatā

infirmity in Tamil

நலிந்த, தளர்ந்த நிலை, நலிவு, வலுவின்மை

infirmity in Urdu

آزار, خامی, ناپائیداری, نقاہت, روگ, ضعیفی

infirmity in Bengali

শারীরিক, মানসিক দুর্বলতা
More languagesFewer languages
infirmity in Malayalam
ക്ഷീണം, അശക്തി, ബലഭ്രംശം, ബലക്ഷയം
infirmity in Kannada
ದೌರ್ಬಲ್ಯ, ಅಶಕ್ತತೆ
infirmity in Sanskrit
रपस् rapas

Examples of infirmity in a sentence

  • suffer from an infirmity
  • He bore the weight of old age and physical infirmity.
  • Despite her infirmity, she remained mentally sharp.

All 14 example sentences with infirmity

Synonyms of infirmity

Forms of infirmity

pluralinfirmities

Origin of infirmity

From infirm + -ity.

Questions about infirmity

What does infirmity mean?
Infirmity means feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
What is infirmity in Hindi?
Infirmity in Hindi is दुर्बलता (durbaltā), अशक्तता (aśaktatā). See Infirmity meaning in Hindi.
How do you use infirmity in a sentence?
suffer from an infirmity
What part of speech is infirmity?
Infirmity is a noun.
How do you pronounce infirmity?
Infirmity is pronounced /ɪnˈfɜːmɪti/ (UK).
What is the plural of infirmity?
The plural of infirmity is infirmities.

Words near infirmity in the dictionary

  1. infirmer
  2. infirmest
  3. infirming
  4. infirmitie
  5. infirmities
  6. infirmity
  7. infirmly
  8. infirmness
  9. infirms
  10. infissile
  11. infit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infirmity (page history and authors); infirmity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); infirmity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); infirmity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); infirmity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); infirmity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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