Weakly-typed

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Belonging to a type system that likely will not result in an error if a passed variable does not closely match the expected type. not-comparable

    "A weakly-typed language will most possibly not generate an error or refuse to compile, if the argument passed to a function does not match the expected type closely."

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loosely-typed

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"A weakly-typed language will most possibly not generate an error or refuse to compile, if the argument passed to a function does not match the expected type closely."

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