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- 1 Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
"The child was too weak to move the boulder."
- 2 Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
"a weak timber; a weak rope"
- 3 Limp, soft.
- 4 Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
"weak resolutions; weak virtue"
- 5 Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love. often
"'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch You know that I'm weak for you Can't help myself I love you and nobody else"
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- 6 Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
"That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired."
- 7 Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:; Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
- 8 Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:; Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
- 9 Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:; Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
- 10 That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
"a weak acid"
- 11 One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
- 12 Bad or uncool. slang
"This place is weak."
- 13 Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
- 14 Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
"If evil thence ensue, / She first his weak indulgence will accuse."
- 15 Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
"The prosecution advanced a weak case."
- 16 Lacking in vigour or expression.
"a weak sentence; a weak style"
- 17 Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
"Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers."
- 18 Tending towards lower prices.
"a weak market; wheat is weak at present"
- 19 Lacking contrast.
"a weak negative"
- 1 deficient in intelligence or mental power wordnet
- 2 overly diluted; thin and insipid wordnet
- 3 likely to fail under stress or pressure wordnet
- 4 wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings wordnet
- 5 deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc wordnet
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- 6 not having authority, political strength, or governing power wordnet
- 7 (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection wordnet
- 8 lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality wordnet
- 9 deficient or lacking in some skill wordnet
- 10 (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress wordnet
- 11 wanting in physical strength wordnet
- 12 tending downward in price wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English weyk, wayk, weik, waik, from Old Norse veikr (“weak”), from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz (“weak, yielded, pliant, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, wind”). Cognate with Old English wāc (“weak, bendsome”), Saterland Frisian wook (“soft, gentle, tender”), West Frisian weak (“soft”), Dutch week (“soft, weak”), German weich (“weak, soft”), Norwegian veik (“weak”), Swedish vek (“weak, pliant”), Icelandic veikur (“bendsome, weak”). Related to Old English wīcan (“to yield”). Doublet of week and wick.
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