decrepitude

Noun

Meaning

The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dilapidation age disease decline decay aging sickness ruin exhaustion deterioration delicacy incapacity fragility impotence malaise
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Antonyms

power building health brawn advantage build
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Hypernyms

impairment deterioration

Examples

Happily virtue is natural in the people, [despite] aristocratical prejudices. A nation is truly corrupt, when, after having, by degrees lost its character and liberty, it slides from democracy into aristocracy or monarchy; this is the death of the political body by decrepitude.... Maximilien Robespierre

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant. William Butler Yeats

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. Jane Fonda

Speech after long silence it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead ... That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant. William Butler Yeats

Close letter words and terms

decrepitation decrepitly decrepitness decrepity decresc. decrescendo