nerveless

nerveless
    adj 1: marked by calm self-control (especially in trying
           circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool";
           "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless
           winner in the history of the tournament" [syn: {cool},
           {coolheaded}, {nerveless}]
    2: lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy
       and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {feeble},
       {nerveless}]
    

nerveless \nerve"less\ (n[~e]rv"l[e^]s), a.
   1. Destitute of nerves.
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   2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak;
      powerless.
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            A kingless people for a nerveless state. --Byron.
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            Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream.
                                                  --Hawthorne.
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77 Moby Thesaurus words for "nerveless":
      anemic, asthenic, bloodless, calm, castrated, chicken, coolheaded,
      cowardly, debilitated, demasculinized, devitalized, drooping,
      droopy, dull, effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated,
      enervated, etiolated, eunuchized, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby,
      flaccid, floppy, gelded, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent,
      inexcitable, languid, languorous, limber, limp, listless, lustless,
      marrowless, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rock-steady,
      rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, steady,
      steady-handed, steady-nerved, steel-nerved, strengthless,
      strong-nerved, unblenching, unblinking, unfaltering, unflinching,
      unhardened, unmanned, unnerved, unnervous, unquivering, unsexed,
      unshaken, unshaky, unshrinking, unstrained, unstrung, untremulous,
      unwavering, weak, weakly, without a tremor