frailty
Plural: frailties
Noun
- A weakness or imperfection, especially in character or morality.
- the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
- moral weakness
- The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
- A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Examples
- His FRAILTY for challenging every unknown word often backfired in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. By surface analysis, frail + -ty. Doublet of fragility.
Synonyms
debility, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, valetudinarianism, vice
Scrabble Score: 13
frailty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfrailty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
frailty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
frailty: valid Words With Friends Word