Old and Weakly

Old

Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.

Weakly and old are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weakly" instead an adjective "Old".

Nearby Words: oldie, olden, oldish

Weakly

Weakly adjective - Chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health.

Old and weakly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Old" instead an adjective "Weakly".

Nearby Words: weak, weakness

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Though it worked & he is physically an eleven-year-old human child, when Sprite weakly tries to wheedle out of his execution by bringing this up, Zuras dryly reminds him that that still doesn't change the fact that he's a million years old & hasn't been a child for a very long time.
  • Video Game / Dragon's Dogma Zero-Effort Boss: In the Playable Epilogue of the game, you end up in a duel with Duke Edmun (complete with health bar), who's now a feeble old man weakly swinging his sword at you.
  • Western Animation / The Powerpuff Girls Movie Evil Old Folks: Pappy Wappy, who is an elderly monkey exposed to Chemical X and is seen weakly attempting to slap a human senior citizen.
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