What are the opposite words for strength?
Strength is a powerful term that is often associated with muscle, power, and endurance. However, when we think about antonyms for the word strength, we often dwell on terms such as weakness, fragility, vulnerability, and instability. These words are the opposite of strength, suggesting the absence of the qualities and characteristics typically associated with being strong. When we look at the broader meaning of strength, we can add antonyms such as cowardice, indecision, and irresoluteness to the list. Antonyms for strength remind us to appreciate the value and importance of being strong, while also acknowledging the benefits of vulnerability and weakness in different contexts.
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- error
- blemish
- attribute
- disease
- feebleness
- weakness
- shortage
- deformity
- crime
- vice
- guilt
- imperfection
- failing
- failure
- lessening
- fatigue
- blind spot
- decline
- default
- defect
- delinquency
- disability
- disadvantage
- dotage
- fault
- flaw
- glitch
- impediment
- inadequacy
- incompetency
- ineffectuality
- ineffectualness
- inefficacy
- instability
- intensity
- lapse
- malaise
- misconduct
- old age
- scantiness
- senescence
- speck
- tiredness
- unstableness
- bug
- debilitation
- debility
- decay
- deficiency
- delicacy
- disfigurement
- exhaustion
- flimsiness
- frailty
- illness
- inability
- incapability
- ineffectiveness
- mistake
- obstruction
- ricketiness
- scar
- senility
- state
- undoing
- infirmity
- dependence/dependency
- mark; flaw
- computer glitch
- insecureness
- offense against the law
- nonfeasance
- insolvency
- depletion of strength
- incapacity, weakness
- breaking down, collapse
- failure; want
- blemish, imperfection
- imperfection, inadequacy
- daintiness, fineness of structure
- downside
- disadvantage, restriction
- ailment, affliction
- feebleness, old age
- a negative aspect of a situation
- mistake; wrong
- lapse, shortcoming
- drawback
- blame, sin; mistake
- lack of strength; ineffectiveness
- personal imperfection
- fragileness
- weakness, flaw
- blame; bad conscience over responsibility
- obstruction, hindrance
- insubstantiality
- shortage, defect, inability
- depression, sickness
- breakdown, failure
- precariousness
- weak point
- stamina, mental or physical
- advantage, substance
- contamination, corruption
- unsoundness
- unsteadiness
- destruction, misfortune
- bad habit; sin
- defect, proneness
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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error
- boo-boo,
- glitch,
- howler,
- mismanagement,
- screamer,
- Misbelief,
- XS,
- booboos,
- screamers,
- booboo,
- howlers,
- bad job,
- bad jobs,
- boo-boos,
- in accuracies,
- in accuracy,
- in-accuracies,
- in-accuracy,
- mis apprehensions,
- mis belief,
- mis beliefs,
- mis calculation,
- mis conception,
- mis conceptions,
- mis cue,
- mis cues,
- mis judgment,
- mis judgments,
- mis management,
- mis managements,
- mis steps,
- mis understanding,
- mis understandings,
- mis-apprehension,
- mis-apprehensions,
- mis-belief,
- mis-beliefs,
- mis-calculation,
- mis-calculations,
- mis-conception,
- mis-conceptions,
- mis-cue,
- mis-cues,
- mis-judgment,
- mis-management,
- mis-managements,
- mis-understanding,
- mis-understandings,
- misbeliefs,
- mismanagements,
- screw ups,
- screw-ups,
- un truth,
- un truths,
- un-truth,
- un-truths.
-
blemish
- beauty spot,
- blackhead,
- cicatrix,
- hickey,
- macula,
- nevus,
- nodule,
- Cicatrices,
- Maculae,
- Nevi,
- whiteheads,
- blackheads,
- beauty spots,
- blot landscape,
- blot on landscape,
- blot on the landscape,
- blot the landscape,
- dis coloration,
- dis colorations,
- dis grace,
- dis graces,
- dis honor,
- dis honors,
- dis-coloration,
- dis-colorations,
- dis-grace,
- dis-graces,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honors,
- lentigines,
- maculations.
- attribute
- disease
- feebleness
-
weakness
- flimsiness,
- impotence,
- inconstancy,
- vitiation,
- inconstancies,
- chink armor,
- chink in armor,
- in constancies,
- in constancy,
- in decision,
- in decisions,
- in stabilities,
- in stability,
- in-constancies,
- in-constancy,
- in-decision,
- in-decisions,
- in-stabilities,
- in-stability,
- sore point,
- sore points,
- vitiations.
- shortage
- deformity
-
crime
- criminality,
- fast one,
- illegality,
- immorality,
- tort,
- Delict,
- Malefaction,
- Torts,
- antisocial behavior,
- antisocial behaviors,
- criminalities,
- delicts,
- delictum,
- delictums,
- evil behaviors,
- fast ones,
- in fractions,
- in-fraction,
- in-fractions,
- male faction,
- male factions,
- male-faction,
- male-factions,
- malefactions,
- mis conduct,
- mis conducts,
- mis deed,
- mis deeds,
- mis demeanor,
- mis-conduct,
- mis-conducts,
- mis-deed,
- mis-deeds,
- mis-demeanor,
- mis-demeanors,
- out rages,
- out-rage,
- out-rages,
- unlawful act,
- unlawful acts.
- vice
- guilt
- imperfection
- failing
- failure
- lessening
- fatigue
- blind spot
-
decline
- cropper,
- devolution,
- pratfalls,
- pratfall,
- croppers,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de scent,
- de scents,
- de volution,
- de volutions,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-scent,
- de-scents,
- de-volution,
- de-volutions,
- devolutions,
- dwindlings,
- ebbings,
- falling offs,
- on skid,
- on skids,
- on the skid,
- on the skids,
- re cession,
- re cessions,
- re lapse,
- re lapses,
- re-cession,
- re-cessions,
- re-lapse,
- re-lapses,
- weakenings,
- worsenings.
- default
- defect
- delinquency
-
disability
- invalidity,
- dis qualification,
- dis qualifications,
- dis-qualification,
- dis-qualifications,
- in capacity,
- in experience,
- in experiences,
- in validities,
- in validity,
- in-capacities,
- in-capacity,
- in-experience,
- in-experiences,
- in-validities,
- in-validity,
- invalidities,
- un fitness,
- un fitnesses,
- un-fitness,
- un-fitnesses.
- disadvantage
- dotage
- fault
-
flaw
- blemish,
- flaw,
- imperfection,
- typo,
- typos,
- catch 22,
- catch 22's,
- catch-22's,
- catch22,
- catch22's.
- glitch
- impediment
-
inadequacy
- defectiveness,
- inadequateness,
- inaptness,
- skimpiness,
- defectivenesses,
- faultinesses,
- in adequacies,
- in adequacy,
- in adequateness,
- in adequatenesses,
- in aptness,
- in efficiencies,
- in efficiency,
- in-adequacies,
- in-adequacy,
- in-adequateness,
- in-adequatenesses,
- in-aptness,
- in-efficiencies,
- in-efficiency,
- inadequatenesses,
- inaptnesses,
- skimpinesses,
- un suitableness,
- un suitablenesses,
- un-suitableness,
- un-suitablenesses.
- incompetency
- ineffectuality
- ineffectualness
- inefficacy
- instability
- intensity
- lapse
- malaise
- misconduct
- old age
- scantiness
-
senescence
- year.
- speck
- tiredness
- unstableness
- bug
- debilitation
- debility
-
decay
- caries,
- gangrene,
- putridity,
- spoilation,
- wasting away,
- Gangrenes,
- crumblings,
- de cadence,
- de cadences,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de composition,
- de compositions,
- de crease,
- de creases,
- de generation,
- de generations,
- de-cadence,
- de-cadences,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-composition,
- de-compositions,
- de-crease,
- de-creases,
- de-generation,
- de-generations,
- dis integration,
- dis integrations,
- dis repair,
- dis repairs,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis-integration,
- dis-integrations,
- dis-repair,
- dis-repairs,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- dyings,
- fadings,
- perishings,
- putridities,
- rottings,
- spoilations,
- wasting aways,
- wastings,
- witherings.
- deficiency
- delicacy
- disfigurement
- exhaustion
- flimsiness
- frailty
- illness
- inability
- incapability
- ineffectiveness
- mistake
- obstruction
- ricketiness
- scar
- senility
- state
-
undoing
- bad omen,
- bad omens,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de stroyer,
- de stroyers,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- de-stroyer,
- de-stroyers,
- mis adventure,
- mis adventures,
- mis chance,
- mis chances,
- mis-adventure,
- mis-adventures,
- over throw,
- over throws,
- over turn,
- over turns,
- over-throw,
- over-throws,
- over-turn,
- re versal,
- re verse,
- re-versal,
- re-verse,
- sub version,
- sub versions,
- sub-version,
- sub-versions,
- un doing,
- un doings,
- un-doing,
- un-doings.
- infirmity
-
dependence/dependency
- responsibleness,
- subjection,
- trustiness,
- trustworthiness,
- be lief,
- be-lief,
- de pendencies,
- de pendency,
- de-pendencies,
- de-pendency,
- inter dependence,
- inter dependences,
- inter-dependence,
- inter-dependences,
- responsiblenesses,
- sub ordination,
- sub ordinations,
- sub-ordinations,
- subserviences,
- trustinesses,
- trustworthinesses.
-
mark; flaw
- blot.
-
computer glitch
- bug.
-
insecureness
- capriciousness,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- disequilibrium,
- fickleness,
- fitfulness,
- impermanence,
- mutability,
- transience,
- unreliability,
- variability,
- Unfixedness,
- capriciousnesses,
- changeabilities,
- changeablenesses,
- dis equilibrium,
- dis equilibriums,
- dis-equilibrium,
- dis-equilibriums,
- disequilibriums,
- ficklenesses,
- fitfulnesses,
- impermanences,
- in consistencies,
- in consistency,
- in secureness,
- in securenesses,
- in securities,
- in security,
- in-consistencies,
- in-consistency,
- in-quietudes,
- in-secureness,
- in-securenesses,
- in-securities,
- in-security,
- mutabilities,
- transiences,
- un certainties,
- un certainty,
- un fixedness,
- un fixednesses,
- un predictabilities,
- un predictability,
- un reliabilities,
- un sureness,
- un-certainties,
- un-certainty,
- un-fixedness,
- un-fixednesses,
- un-reliabilities,
- un-reliability,
- un-surenesses,
- unfixednesses,
- unpredictabilities,
- unreliabilities,
- variabilities,
- waverings.
- offense against the law
- nonfeasance
-
insolvency
- implosion,
- nonperformance,
- nonsuccess,
- Non-performance,
- flash in pan,
- flash the pan,
- implosions,
- in solvency,
- in-solvencies,
- in-solvency,
- lead balloon,
- lead balloons,
- non performance,
- non performances,
- non success,
- non successes,
- non-successes,
- nonperformances,
- nonsuccesses,
- sinking ship,
- sinking ships,
- total loss,
- total losses.
- depletion of strength
- incapacity, weakness
- breaking down, collapse
- failure; want
- blemish, imperfection
- imperfection, inadequacy
- daintiness, fineness of structure
- downside
- disadvantage, restriction
- ailment, affliction
- feebleness, old age
- a negative aspect of a situation
- mistake; wrong
- lapse, shortcoming
- drawback
- blame, sin; mistake
- lack of strength; ineffectiveness
- personal imperfection
- fragileness
- weakness, flaw
- blame; bad conscience over responsibility
- obstruction, hindrance
- insubstantiality
- shortage, defect, inability
- depression, sickness
- breakdown, failure
- precariousness
- weak point
- stamina, mental or physical
- advantage, substance
- contamination, corruption
- unsoundness
- unsteadiness
- destruction, misfortune
-
bad habit; sin
- vice.
- defect, proneness
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Other relevant words
- awkwardness,
- disability,
- dulness,
- helplessness,
- imbecility,
- impotency,
- inaptitude,
- incapableness,
- ineffectiveness,
- ineffectuality,
- ineffectualness,
- inefficaciousness,
- inefficacy,
- inefficiency,
- insecurity,
- instability,
- insubstantiality,
- maladroitness,
- paralysis,
- precariousness,
- shakiness,
- stupidity,
- unstableness,
- unsteadiness,
- uselessness,
- unsubstantiality.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
