vigorless

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Etymology

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From vigor +‎ -less.

Adjective

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vigorless (comparative more vigorless, superlative most vigorless)

  1. With an absence of vigor.
    • An Episode in the Life of Dom Sebastian, King of Portugal (in The Southern Literary Messenger)
      [] the rays of the moon were only reflected from the shattered armor, and the useless weapons, which those gallant warriors, so full of hope and ardor, had that day wielded, and which their vigorless hands still grasped even in death!