debilitative

Examples

• All

• Direction of anxiety refers to the way athletes perceive anxiety symptoms, and in particular whether athletes perceive these symptoms as facilitative (helpful to performance) or debilitative (detrimental to performance).

  Academic text (2008)

• She has pernicious anaemia, which is a lifetime condition, and, you know, somewhat debilitative over time.

  Garbo: Where Did You Go? (2024)

• This would also support the view (Hardy, 1990) that high self-confidence may protect against the potentially debilitative effects of anxiety.

  Academic text (2000)

• Anxiety management strategies are introduced to assist the student's ability to recognize and identify sources of anxiety, while relaxation strategies are taught to improve the student's ability to modulate the debilitative effects of anxiety.

  Academic text (2003)

• Lack of sleep can be extremely debilitative, affecting both physical and cognitive functions.

• The disease was proven to be debilitative, gradually leading to significant weakness and fatigue.

Synonyms

D

debilitating

vsdebilitative

33 7.5

Causing serious weakness that stops normal daily activities

is less severe and causes milder weakness rather than major disability

I

incapacitating

vsdebilitative

1 7.0

Causing a person to be unable to move or work

causes loss of strength but does not always remove ability to function

E

enervating

vsdebilitative

1 8.3

Making someone feel very tired and weak

causes loss of strength but often less focused on feeling drained

E

enfeebling

vsdebilitative

8.1

Making someone or something weak and less able to do things

causes loss of strength but with less emphasis on reduced power

W

weakening

vsdebilitative

3.7

Causing a person, animal, or thing to become less strong

causes loss of strength but not necessarily long lasting or very severe

Antonyms

E

energizing

1 4.1

An action that gives energy and makes someone feel more active

How Debilitating

crippling

8 5.8

disabling

5.6

debilitative

9.1

weakening

3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology