debilitating

The word “debilitating” has 5 syllables: de-bil-i-ta-ting

It's pronounced as /dɪˈbɪlɪˌteɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for debilitating?

In the thesaurus, “debilitating” has 87 synonyms and 69 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for debilitating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for debilitating

  • annoying
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • bothersome
  • breaking down
  • common
  • commonplace
  • crippling
  • cumbersome
  • damaging
  • demoralizing
  • depleting
  • depressing
  • devitalizing
  • disabling
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • draining
  • dullish
  • earthbound
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • etiolating
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • gray
  • grey
  • hamstringing
  • harming
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • impoverishing
  • inanimate
  • incapacitating
  • injuring
  • invaliding
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • laying up
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • ordinary
  • overburdening
  • pallid
  • palling
  • paralyzing
  • pedantic
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • prosaic
  • prostrating
  • prosy
  • sapping
  • softening
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • sterile
  • suspenseless
  • taxing
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • unmanning
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing down
  • wearing out
  • wearying

Antonyms for debilitating

  • absorbing
  • alluring
  • amazing
  • amusing
  • animating
  • arresting
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • awesome
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • breathtaking
  • captivating
  • charming
  • diverting
  • easy
  • electrifying
  • enchanting
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enlivening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • entrancing
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fascinating
  • fortifying
  • galvanizing
  • gripping
  • hair-raising
  • hardening
  • inspiring
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • involving
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mesmerizing
  • moving
  • poignant
  • provocative
  • recruiting
  • rejuvenating
  • rip-roaring
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • seasoning
  • sensational
  • spectacular
  • spellbinding
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • strengthening
  • surprising
  • suspenseful
  • tantalizing
  • thrilling
  • touching
  • toughening
  • vitalizing
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

Meanings of debilitating

  • verb
    1. To make feeble; to weaken.
  • adjective
    1. Causing a loss of energy or strength.

Example Sentences

  • The disease was so debilitating that it rendered him unable to walk without assistance.
  • Chronic stress can be debilitating, affecting both mental and physical health.
  • The injury had a debilitating effect on her performance, sidelining her for the entire season.
  • The economic downturn proved debilitating for many small businesses in the area.
  • The side effects of the medication were debilitating, leaving him exhausted and weak.

On this page you'll find 156 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to debilitating, such as: absorbing, alluring, amazing, amusing, animating, annoying, arresting.

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Related Words

ebbing

  • abatement
  • abating
  • alleviating
  • at end of rope
  • atrophy
  • atrophying
  • backsliding
  • breaking down
  • ceasing
  • ceasing to exist
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • comedown
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • corrupting
  • cropper
  • crumbling
  • de-escalating
  • debilitating
  • debilitation
  • decay
  • decaying
  • declension
  • declinatory
  • decline
  • decline and fall
  • declining
  • decomposing
  • decreasing
  • decrepitude
  • decrescent
  • deflating
  • degeneracy
  • degenerating
  • degeneration
  • degrading
  • dematerialization
  • departure
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • descent
  • desertion
  • desisting
  • deteriorating
  • deterioration
  • devolution
  • devolving
  • dilapidating
  • diminishing
  • diminution
  • disappearing act
  • discontinuing
  • disintegrating
  • disintegration
  • dispersal
  • dissipation
  • dissolution
  • dive
  • done for
  • doomed
  • downfall
  • downgrade
  • downsizing
  • downturn
  • drooping
  • drop
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebb
  • eclipse
  • ending
  • enfeeblement
  • escape
  • evanescence
  • evaporating
  • evaporation
  • exhaustion
  • exit
  • exodus
  • expiring
  • fade-out
  • fading
  • fading away
  • failing
  • failure
  • fall
  • fall-off
  • falling
  • falling away
  • falling-off
  • fated
  • final
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • flight
  • flop
  • giving out
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • going to pot
  • going to seed
  • in extremis
  • lagging
  • languishing
  • lapse
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • limping
  • losing momentum
  • loss
  • lowering
  • melting
  • moderating
  • moldering
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • narrowing
  • on last leg
  • on the skids
  • one foot in grave
  • palling
  • passing
  • perishing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • pratfall
  • putrefying
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • receding
  • recession
  • reducing
  • regressing
  • regression
  • relapse
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • remitting
  • removal
  • retirement
  • retrograding
  • rotting
  • running down
  • running to seed
  • sagging
  • senility
  • setback
  • settling
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • skids
  • slackening
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slump
  • slumping
  • softening
  • souring
  • spoiling
  • stopping
  • subsiding
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tumbling
  • undermining
  • vanishing
  • wane
  • waning
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing away
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • wilting
  • winding up
  • withdrawal
  • withering
  • worsening

jejune

  • adolescent
  • annoying
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • babyish
  • banal
  • barren
  • blah
  • bland
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • boyish
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • childish
  • childlike
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • debilitating
  • demoralizing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • empty
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flat
  • girlie
  • girlish
  • girly
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • immature
  • inane
  • inanimate
  • infantile
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • insipid
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jading
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • leaden
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • meager
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • naive
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • puerile
  • simple
  • simplistic
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • trite
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unsophisticated
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

tame

  • acclimatized
  • amenable
  • annoying
  • arid
  • arrest
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • biddable
  • blah
  • bland
  • blank
  • block
  • bloodless
  • boiled down
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • break
  • break in
  • break the spirit
  • bridle
  • bridled
  • bring to heel
  • broken
  • bust
  • busted
  • check
  • civilized
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • conquer
  • constrain
  • contain
  • control
  • conventional
  • cultivated
  • cumbersome
  • curb
  • debilitating
  • demoralizing
  • diluted
  • discipline
  • disciplined
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • docile
  • domestic
  • domesticated
  • domesticize
  • domiciliate
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • enslave
  • exhausting
  • familiar
  • fatiguing
  • fearless
  • feeble
  • flat
  • gag
  • gentle
  • gentle as a lamb
  • govern
  • gray
  • grey
  • habituated
  • halfhearted
  • halterbroken
  • hamper
  • handcuff
  • harmless
  • harnessed
  • heavy
  • hinder
  • ho-hum
  • hold
  • hold back
  • house-train
  • housebreak
  • housebroken
  • humble
  • humdrum
  • impede
  • inanimate
  • inhibit
  • insipid
  • interrupt
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jading
  • jejune
  • keep
  • kindly
  • leaden
  • lifeless
  • limp
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • manageable
  • measure
  • meek
  • mild
  • mince
  • mind-numbing
  • mitigate
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • muffle
  • mute
  • muzzle
  • muzzled
  • numbing
  • obedient
  • obstruct
  • old
  • ordinary
  • overcome
  • pacify
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • pliable
  • pliant
  • plodding
  • pocket
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • pull in
  • regulate
  • repress
  • restrain
  • routine
  • rule
  • semidomesticated
  • silence
  • sink
  • slow
  • smother
  • soften
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • squelch
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stifle
  • stodgy
  • stop
  • strangle
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • subdue
  • subdued
  • subjugate
  • submissive
  • suppress
  • suspenseless
  • swallow
  • tamed
  • tedious
  • temper
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tone down
  • tractable
  • train
  • trained
  • unafraid
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unresisting
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vanquish
  • vapid
  • water down
  • weak
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • white-bread
  • without punch
  • yoked

dampening

  • abating
  • alleviating
  • bathing
  • bedewing
  • benumbing
  • black
  • bleak
  • blunting
  • burning out
  • castrating
  • cauterizing
  • damping
  • daunting
  • deadening
  • debilitating
  • decreasing
  • dehydrating
  • demoralizing
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desiccating
  • deterring
  • devitalizing
  • diminishing
  • dipping
  • disadvantageous
  • disappointing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • dissuading
  • doing in
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drenching
  • dulling
  • dunking
  • dwindling
  • easing
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flushing
  • gelding
  • gloomy
  • hindering
  • humidifying
  • immerging
  • immersing
  • impregnating
  • inopportune
  • irrigating
  • laving
  • lessening
  • lightening
  • lobotomizing
  • lowering
  • moderating
  • moistening
  • muffling
  • muting
  • numbing
  • off-putting
  • oppressive
  • petrifying
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rehydrating
  • remoistening
  • repressing
  • rinsing
  • sapping
  • saturating
  • sluicing
  • soaking
  • sousing
  • steeping
  • subduing
  • subsiding
  • undermining
  • unfavorable
  • unpropitious
  • waning
  • washing
  • watering
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wetting

old

  • Noachian
  • aboriginal
  • adult
  • age-old
  • aged
  • ageing
  • ageless
  • aging
  • along in years
  • ancient
  • anile
  • annoying
  • antediluvian
  • antiquated
  • antique
  • antiquity
  • archaic
  • archaistic
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • broken down
  • bygone
  • cast-off
  • centenarian
  • classic
  • classical
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • constant
  • continuing
  • crumbling
  • cumbersome
  • dated
  • dateless
  • dead
  • debilitated
  • debilitating
  • decayed
  • decrepit
  • defunct
  • demoralizing
  • departed
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • doddering
  • done
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • durable
  • dusty
  • early
  • earthbound
  • elderly
  • enduring
  • enervating
  • enfeebled
  • enfeebling
  • erstwhile
  • established
  • exhausted
  • exhausting
  • experienced
  • expired
  • extinct
  • familiar
  • fatiguing
  • firm
  • flat
  • former
  • fossil
  • fusty
  • geriatric
  • getting on
  • gone
  • gray
  • gray-haired
  • grey
  • grizzled
  • grown-up
  • hackneyed
  • hallowed
  • hardened
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • hoar
  • hoary
  • humdrum
  • immemorial
  • impaired
  • inactive
  • inanimate
  • infirm
  • inveterate
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jading
  • jejune
  • lasting
  • late
  • leaden
  • lifelong
  • long in the tooth
  • long-ago
  • long-lasting
  • long-lived
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • matriarchal
  • mature
  • matured
  • mediaeval
  • medieval
  • middle-aged
  • mind-numbing
  • moldy
  • moment
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • nonagenarian
  • not young
  • now
  • numbing
  • obsolete
  • octogenarian
  • of a certain age
  • of long standing
  • of old
  • of yore
  • old-fashioned
  • old-time
  • old-world
  • olden
  • older
  • oldfangled
  • oldish
  • once
  • onetime
  • ordinary
  • original
  • other
  • out-of-date
  • outmoded
  • over the hill
  • over-the-hill
  • overage
  • overaged
  • pallid
  • palling
  • past
  • patriarchal
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pensioned
  • perennial
  • permanent
  • perpetual
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • practiced
  • prehistoric
  • prehistorical
  • present
  • primeval
  • primitive
  • primordial
  • pristine
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • quondam
  • relic
  • remote
  • retired
  • retro
  • rusty
  • seasoned
  • senescent
  • senile
  • senior
  • septuagenarian
  • sexagenarian
  • skilled
  • slow
  • soggy
  • solid
  • sometime
  • spavined
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • staying
  • steady
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • superannuated
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • time-honored
  • time-tested
  • time-worn
  • timeless
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • today
  • tottery
  • traditional
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unfashionable
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unoriginal
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • unyoung
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • venerable
  • versed
  • veteran
  • vintage
  • wasted
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • whilom
  • worn-out
  • yesterday
  • yesteryear
  • yore

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