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Adjective: infirm (infirmer,infirmest)  in'furm
  1. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
    "The infirm patient needed assistance walking";
    - decrepit, debile [archaic], feeble, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly
     
  2. Lacking firmness of will, character or purpose
    "Infirm of purpose! / Give me the daggers"

Derived forms: infirmest, infirmer

See also: frail, irresolute

Encyclopedia: Infirm