Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor.

Roget 158: powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled etc. v.; armless^†.    harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu [Lat.], unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable.    paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless^†, marrowless^†, pithless^†, lustless^†; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled etc. (in difficulty) 704; helpless, unfriended^†, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat [Fr.], laid on the shelf.    null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual etc. (failing) 732; inadequate etc. 640; inefficacious etc. (useless) 645.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile^†; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless^†, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic^†, asthenic^†; nervous.    soft, effeminate, feminate^†, womanly.    frail, fragile, shattery^†; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy^†; drooping, tottering etc. v.. broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied etc. 158; decrepit.    languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish^†; sickly etc. (disease) 655; dull, slack, evanid^†, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.    unstrengthened etc. 159^†, unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless^†, defenseless etc. 158; cantilevered (support) 215.    on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless etc. 429.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 376: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient^†, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 655: diseased; ailing etc. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather [U.S.]; valetudinary^†.    unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose^†, healthless^†, infirm, chlorotic [Med.], unbraced^†.    drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.    morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid^†, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic; dyspeptic; luetic^†, pneumonic, pulmonic [Med.], phthisic^†, rachitic; syntectic^†, syntectical^†; tabetic^†, varicose.    touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat etc. (useless) 645 [Fr.].    weakly, weakened etc. (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed etc. (deteriorated) 659; incurable etc. (hopeless) 859; in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund etc. (death) 360.    morbific etc. 657^†; epidemic, endemic; zymotic^†.    ... meer laten zien

Loss of the ability to move a body part.

synoniem: paralysis.

Roget 823: insensibility, insensibleness^†; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae [Lat.]; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency^†, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude^†, supineness, lukewarmness^†.    cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid [Fr.]; stoicism, imperturbation etc. (inexcitability) 826^†; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance etc. (indifference) 866; recklessness etc. 863; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness.    torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction^†, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep etc. 683; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness etc. (physical insensibility) 376.    neutrality; quietism, vegetation.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity^†; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature^†.    visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.    delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy^†; cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus^†; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay etc. (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.    taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity^†, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox.    sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250; carbuncle, gathering, imposthume^†, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus^†, sphacelation^†, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.    fever, temperature, calenture^†; inflammation.    ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera^†, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia^†, blennorrhoea^†; blood poisoning, bloodstroke^†, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever^†, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche^†, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem^†, enanthema^†; erysipelas; exanthem^†, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps^†, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis^†, pneumonia, psora^†, pyaemia^†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis^†, ringworm, rubeola, St.    Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma^†, syntexis^†, tetanus, tetter^†, tonsillitis, tonsilitis^†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.    fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.    [Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499; insanity etc. 503.    martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind;" valetudinary^†, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber.    [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology^†.    [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter^†; cattle plague, glanders^†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.    [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria.    [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus.    [RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus.    [DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human immunodefficiency virus, HIV.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 376: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness etc. adj.; palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia [Med.], anaesthesia; sleep etc. 823; hemiplegia^†, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma.    anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 158: impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity^†; indocility^†; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.    telum imbelle [Lat.], brutum fulmen [Lat.], blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.], dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.    inefficacy etc. (inutility) 645^†; failure etc. 732.    helplessness etc. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration^†, deliquium [Lat.], collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med.], orchotomy [Med.].    cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: paralyse, paralysie, verlamming
Pools: porażenie, bezwład, paraliż, bezwładność

A condition marked by uncontrollable tremor.

Affect with palsy.