Definitions for infirm

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infirm in·firm

Spelling: [in-furm]

IPA: /ɪnˈfɜrm/

Infirm is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in infirm (fiimnr).

Definitions for infirm

adjective

1. feeble or weak in body or health, especially because of age; ailing.
2. unsteadfast, faltering, or irresolute, as persons or the mind; vacillating:
3. not firm, solid, or strong:
4. unsound or invalid, as an argument or a property title.

verb (used with object)

1. to invalidate.

Origin of infirm

1325-75; Middle English infirme Latin infirmus. See in-³, firm¹

Examples for infirm

But the infirm are always cunning—he breathed not a suspicion.

I get sick when I hear of the charities obliterated and the old and infirm investors who are left with nothing.

The next evening, Romero was saying mass in the chapel at the hospice where he lived in a tiny room near the infirm and the dying.

Was the infirm old soldier, perhaps, taking Obama to task for the scandals in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs?

Are we unfairly neglecting the up-and-coming in favor of the old and infirm?

Can they give beauty to the deformed, strength to the weak, or health to the infirm?

The contemplation of the infirm and lonely steed overcame him.

This created a good incentive for the other justices to lobby the infirm one to step down.

The Duke of Lerma, infirm and enfeebled by years, was unable to confront his foes.

To be "infirm of purpose" is to be at the mercy of the artful or at the disposal of accident.