asthenic
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Definition(s):
- (adj) lacking strength or vigor
- (adj) having a slender physique
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Usage(s):
- An asthenic-looking fop, playing an innocent love scene with Charlotte Corday, promptly tries to rape her.
- Whimsy is asthenic fantasy, a fragile, elusive quality difficult to render but easy to shatter into sentimentality.
- She plays with an easy and spontaneous grace, and she looks, in her moments of limp asthenic loveliness, like an undine sighing in the Seine.
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