Weak

//wiːk//

Synonyms for "weak" (692 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (139)

debilitated faint feeble flimsy powerless puny vulnerable watery accessible attenuated decrepit delicate dilute diluted enervated enfeebled frail gentle imbecile inconclusive

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indistinct ineffective ineffectual infirm insipid irresolute languid light low pallid pliable pliant poor shaky sickly slender slight strengthless tasteless thin unaccented unconvincing unsound unstable unstressed unsubstantial unsustained vacillating vague wavering weakened weakly lame stupid abulic accented achromatic achromic adamic adamite adamitic adulterated afraid ailing airy alveolar amenable anaemic anemic anile anthropocentric anthropological apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated ashen ashy assailable assimilated asthenic attackable attenuate back backsliding barely audible barytone beatable bilabial blear bleared bleary bled white bloodless blurred blurry boneless boyish breakable brittle broad bungling cacuminal cadaverous careless carnal central cerebral characterless checked chicken chickenhearted childish chloranemic close cold colorless compliant confused conquerable consonant consonantal continuant coward cowardly cowed crabbed crippled dark daunted dead deadly pale

Adjective(7 words)

anemic assailable breakable broken-down carrion contemptible damaged

Strong matches (207)

deathly pale decrescendo defenceless dental diaphanous dickey dim dimmed dingy discolored dismayed dissimilated distant doddered doddering doddery dorsal down drooping droopy

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dull earthborn earthy easy easygoing effeminate effete emasculate erring ethereal etiolated exhausted expugnable exsanguinated exsanguine exsanguineous fade faded fagged faint-hearted faint-voiced fainthearted fainting faintish fallen fallible fallow fatigued fearful featherweight feebleminded feeling faint filmy fine fine drawn fine-drawn finespun finite flabby flaccid flagging flat flavorless fleshly floppy fluctuant foggy foolish footsore forceless fossilized fragile frangible frazzled frivolous front funking funky futile fuzzy gauzy gerontal gerontic ghastly girlish glide glossal glottal gone good and tired gossamer gracile gray grey groggy gruelly gutless guttural haggard half-heard half-seen half-visible hard hazy heavy helpless henhearted hesitant high hominal homocentric hueless human humanistic hypochromic ill-defined illogical imperfect implausible impotent imprecise impressionable improbable impure inadequate inane incompetent inconceivable inconsiderable inconspicuous incredible indefinite indifferent indiscreet indistinguishable inefficacious inefficient inept influenceable injudicious insecure insubstantial intimidated intonated invertebrate irresponsible jaded jejune jerry built labial labiodental labiovelar lackluster lacy languished languorous lapsed lateral lax leaden lenient lethargic lightweight lily livered lily-livered limber limp lingual liquid listless little livid loose

Adjective(9 words)

debile decrepit faint fallible feeble frail imperfect infirm light

Adjective(25 words)

debilitated decrepit delicate derisible despicable dickless dilute effete enervated enfeebled exhausted faint feeble flimsy fragile frail harmed hurt ignominious impaired

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impotent infirm injured lame languid

Related words (346)

Adjective(35 words)

low miserable murrain powerless prostrate prostrated puny raddled reprehensible reptilian resistless sapped scandalous scurvy slightsoft softened susceptible tender tired toothless

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torpid uncool unresistant vincible vulnerable wasted watery weakened weary weedy wimpy woeful worn out wretched yielding

low profile low-profile lurid lusterless lustless malleable man-centered marrowless mat mealy meek merely glimpsed mid mild milk-and-water milk-livered milksoppish milksoppy misty monophthongal

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moribund mortal mossbacked moth eaten moth-eaten mousy movable muddy mummylike murmured muted narrow nasal nasalized negligent nerveless neutral no account no-account obscure occlusive of easy virtue of no account only human open open minded open-minded out of focus overindulgent overpermissive overtimid overtimorous oxytone palatal palatalized pale pale as death pale-faced palsied panic-prone panicky papery papery-skinned pappy pasty peaky peccable penetrable permissive persuadable persuasible pervious pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pianissimo piano pigeonhearted pitch pitched pithless plastic pooped postlapsarian posttonic pregnable prodigal pulpy rabbity rare rarefied ravaged with age ready to drop receptive recidivist recidivistic regular relaxed remiss responsive retroflex rickety rocky rootless rounded rubbery run down run ragged run to seed run-down rusty sagging sallow sapless savorless scarcely heard seedy semivisible semivowel senile senseless shadowy shallow shriveled silly simple sinewless sissified sissy slack sleazy slenderish slight-made slim slimmish slinky slipshod sloppy small soft soft-sounding soft-voiced sonant spent spiceless spindly spineless stale stopped stressed stricken in years strong suasible subaudible subdued subtle suggestible surd surmountable susceptible svelte swayable syllabic sylphlike tallow-faced tellurian tense tenuous tepid thick thin-bodied thin-set thin-spun thinnish threadlike throaty timeworn timid timorous tired tired-winged toilworn tonal toneless tonic tottering tottery trifling trimming twangy unangelic unauthoritative unbelievable uncertain unchaste unclean unclear uncolored undecided undefined undependable undetermined unfit unflavored ungodly ungood unhardened unhealthy unintelligent unmanly unmanned unnerved unpalatable unplain unprotected unproved unqualified unrecognizable unrefreshed unreliable unrestored unrestrained unrighteous unrigorous unrounded unsafe unsaintly unsatisfactory unsavory unsettled unskilled unsteady unstrung unsuitable unsupported unsure untenable untrustworthy unvirtuous unwise vacillate vain vapid velar vincible virtueless vocalic vocoid voiced voiceless vowel vowellike wan wanton washed out washed-out washy wasp waisted wasp-waisted wasted watered watered down watered-down waterish waxen way-weary wayward wayworn weak kneed weak minded weak-kneed weak-minded weak-voiced weak-willed weakhearted wearied weariful weary weary-footed weary-laden weary-winged weary-worn whey-faced whispered white white-livered wide willowy wilted wilting wiredrawn wishy washy wishy-washy wispy withered without any weight witless wizened wobbly worn worn-down yellow yielding

Adjective(6 words)

rickety sapless unaccented washy watery weakly

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

1 entries

lacking

More specific

3 entries

depleted deteriorated scrawny

Antonyms

4 entries

healthy potent strong

Synonyms

94 entries

accessible adulterated attenuated boneless breakable brittle childish compliant debilitated decrepit defenceless delicate dilute diluted enervated enfeebled

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Related terms

1 entries

weak spot

derived

65 entries

bring it weak electroweak miliweak nonweak overweak piss weak piss-weak superweak the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must weak AI weak artificial intelligence weak as piss weak as water weak atheist weak copyleft

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has context

9 entries

chemistry germanic languages grammar logic mathematics photography physics slang stock exchange

related to

22 entries

ability anion bad cation contrast decay definite delicate dilute force fundamental inflection ionize nuclear potency powerless

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similar

53 entries

adynamic anaemic anemic asthenic debilitated delicate dilute diluted down enervated faint fallible

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Translations

279 translations across 111 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

swak adj (lacking in force or ability)

Albanian

3 entries

e ligë adj (lacking in force or ability)
i dobët adj (lacking in force or ability)
i lig adj (lacking in force or ability)

Amharic

2 entries

ለዋሳ adj (lacking in force or ability)
ደካማ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

μῶλυς adj (lacking in force or ability)
ἀσθενής adj (lacking in force or ability)

Arabic

4 entries

ضعيف adj (lacking in force or ability)
ضَعِيف adj (lacking in force or ability)
ضَعِيف adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
عيّان adj (lacking in force or ability)

Armenian

4 entries

թույլ adj (lacking in force or ability)
թույլ adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
թույլ adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)
տկար adj (lacking in force or ability)

Aromanian

1 entries

slab adj (lacking in force or ability)

Asturian

1 entries

débil adj (lacking in force or ability)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

gücsüz adj (lacking in force or ability)
zəif adj (lacking in force or ability)

Bashkir

1 entries

көсһөҙ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Basque

2 entries

ahul adj (lacking in force or ability)
ahul adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Belarusian

1 entries

сла́бы adj (lacking in force or ability)

Bengali

2 entries

দুর্বল adj (lacking in force or ability)
পাতলা adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

कमजोर adj (lacking in force or ability)

Bikol Central

1 entries

maluya adj (lacking in force or ability)

Breton

1 entries

gwan adj (lacking in force or ability)

Bulgarian

1 entries

слаб adj (lacking in force or ability)

Burmese

1 entries

အားနည်း adj (lacking in force or ability)

Catalan

2 entries

dèbil adj (lacking in force or ability)
feble adj (lacking in force or ability)

Chechen

2 entries

гӏийла adj (lacking in force or ability)
мела adj (lacking in force or ability)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries

弱 adj (lacking in force or ability)
虛弱 /虚弱 adj (lacking in force or ability)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

弱 adj (lacking in force or ability)
微弱 adj (lacking in force or ability)
軟弱 /软弱 adj (lacking in force or ability)

Church Slavic

2 entries

слабъ adj (lacking in force or ability)
ⱄⰾⰰⰱⱏ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Corsican

1 entries

debuli adj (lacking in force or ability)

Crimean Tatar

2 entries

quvetsiz adj (lacking in force or ability)
zayıf adj (lacking in force or ability)

Czech

3 entries

slabý adj (lacking in force or ability)
slabý adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
slabý adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)

Dalmatian

1 entries

débol adj (lacking in force or ability)

Danish

2 entries

svag adj (lacking in force or ability)
veg adj (lacking in force or ability)

Dutch

4 entries

flauw adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
slap adj (lacking in force or ability)
zwak adj (lacking in force or ability)
zwak adj (grammar: regular in inflection)

Erzya

1 entries

лавшо adj (lacking in force or ability)

Esperanto

1 entries

malforta adj (lacking in force or ability)

Estonian

1 entries

nõrk adj (lacking in force or ability)

Faroese

1 entries

veikur adj (lacking in force or ability)

Finnish

4 entries

heikko adj (lacking in force or ability)
heikko adj (grammar: regular in inflection)
heikko adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)
huono adj (slang: bad or uncool)

French

2 entries

débile adj (lacking in force or ability)
faible adj (lacking in force or ability)

Friulian

1 entries

debul adj (lacking in force or ability)

Galician

4 entries

débil adj (lacking in force or ability)
feble adj (lacking in force or ability)
fraco adj (lacking in force or ability)
frouxo adj (lacking in force or ability)

Georgian

3 entries

სუსტი adj (lacking in force or ability)
უღონო adj (lacking in force or ability)
უძლური adj (lacking in force or ability)

German

4 entries

häßlich adj (slang: bad or uncool)
out adj (slang: bad or uncool)
schwach adj (lacking in force or ability)
schwach adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌿𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 adj (lacking in force or ability)

Greek

2 entries

αδύναμος adj (lacking in force or ability)
αδύνατος adj (grammar: regular in inflection)

Hebrew

1 entries

חַלָּשׁ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Higaonon

1 entries

mahuyang adj (lacking in force or ability)

Hindi

4 entries

अशक्त adj (lacking in force or ability)
कमज़ोर adj (lacking in force or ability)
दुर्बल adj (lacking in force or ability)
निर्बल adj (lacking in force or ability)

Hungarian

4 entries

gyenge adj (lacking in force or ability)
gyenge adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
gyenge adj (grammar: regular in inflection)
gyenge adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)

Icelandic

1 entries

veikur adj (lacking in force or ability)

Ido

3 entries

debila adj (lacking in force or ability)
debila adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)
febla adj (lacking in force or ability)

Indonesian

1 entries

lemah adj (lacking in force or ability)

Ingrian

2 entries

heikko adj (lacking in force or ability)
see Thesaurus:heikko adj (lacking in force or ability)

Irish

4 entries

aimhneartach adj (lacking in force or ability)
anbhann adj (lacking in force or ability)
caol adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
creatach adj (lacking in force or ability)

Italian

1 entries

debole adj (lacking in force or ability)

Japanese

4 entries

ださい adj (slang: bad or uncool)
弱い adj (lacking in force or ability)
弱い adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)
弱変化の adj (grammar: regular in inflection)

Kabuverdianu

2 entries

lébi adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
xalalá adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Kazakh

2 entries

күшсіз adj (lacking in force or ability)
әлсіз adj (lacking in force or ability)

Khmer

1 entries

ខ្សោយ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Korean

1 entries

약하다 adj (lacking in force or ability)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

алсыз adj (lacking in force or ability)
күчсүз adj (lacking in force or ability)

Lao

2 entries

ຍໍ່ແຍ່ adj (lacking in force or ability)
ບໍ່ແຂງແຮງ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Latgalian

1 entries

sluobs adj (lacking in force or ability)

Latin

4 entries

debilis adj (lacking in force or ability)
imbecillus adj (lacking in force or ability)
infirmus adj (lacking in force or ability)
invalidus adj (lacking in force or ability)

Latvian

2 entries

vājš adj (lacking in force or ability)
vārgs adj (lacking in force or ability)

Lithuanian

1 entries

silpnas adj (lacking in force or ability)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

słaby adj (lacking in force or ability)

Macedonian

1 entries

слаб adj (lacking in force or ability)

Malay

1 entries

lemah adj (lacking in force or ability)

Maltese

1 entries

dgħajjef adj (lacking in force or ability)

Mongolian

3 entries

дорой adj (lacking in force or ability)
муу adj (lacking in force or ability)
сул дорой adj (lacking in force or ability)

Māori

1 entries

tahō adj (lacking in force or ability)

Norman

1 entries

faibl'ye adj (lacking in force or ability)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

svak adj (lacking in force or ability)
veik adj (lacking in force or ability)

Occitan

2 entries

debil adj (lacking in force or ability)
feble adj (lacking in force or ability)

Old English

1 entries

untrum adj (lacking in force or ability)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

درمانسز adj (lacking in force or ability)
ضعیف adj (lacking in force or ability)

Pashto

1 entries

ايڼ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Persian

2 entries

ضعیف adj (lacking in force or ability)
نزار adj (lacking in force or ability)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

schwak adj (lacking in force or ability)

Polabian

1 entries

slobĕ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Polish

1 entries

słaby adj (lacking in force or ability)

Portuguese

4 entries

débil adj (lacking in force or ability)
fraco adj (lacking in force or ability)
fraco adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
fraco adj (grammar: regular in inflection)

Romanian

3 entries

debil adj (lacking in force or ability)
lânced adj (lacking in force or ability)
slab adj (lacking in force or ability)

Romansch

4 entries

debel adj (lacking in force or ability)
flaivel adj (lacking in force or ability)
fleivel adj (lacking in force or ability)
flevel adj (lacking in force or ability)

Russian

4 entries

отстой adj (slang: bad or uncool)
пра́вильный adj (grammar: regular in inflection)
сла́бый adj (lacking in force or ability)
сла́бый adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Sanskrit

3 entries

अशक्त adj (lacking in force or ability)
दुर्बल adj (lacking in force or ability)
निर्बल adj (lacking in force or ability)

Santali

1 entries

ᱚᱵᱳᱞ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Sardinian

3 entries

débbile adj (lacking in force or ability)
débbili adj (lacking in force or ability)
díbbile adj (lacking in force or ability)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

lag adj (lacking in force or ability)
lag adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

slab adj (lacking in force or ability)
слаб adj (lacking in force or ability)

Sicilian

4 entries

dèbbili adj (lacking in force or ability)
dèbbuli adj (lacking in force or ability)
dèbili adj (lacking in force or ability)
dèbuli adj (lacking in force or ability)

Slovak

1 entries

slabý adj (lacking in force or ability)

Slovene

2 entries

slàb adj (lacking in force or ability)
šíbek adj (lacking in force or ability)

Spanish

4 entries

debilucho adj (lacking in force or ability)
débil adj (lacking in force or ability)
débil adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)
feble adj (lacking in force or ability)

Swahili

1 entries

dhaifu adj (lacking in force or ability)

Swedish

4 entries

svag adj (lacking in force or ability)
svag adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
svag adj (grammar: regular in inflection)
svag adj (physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay)

Tagalog

2 entries

mahina adj (lacking in force or ability)
matabang adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Tajik

2 entries

заиф adj (lacking in force or ability)
низор adj (lacking in force or ability)

Tatar

1 entries

көчсез adj (lacking in force or ability)

Thai

4 entries

ปวกเปียก adj (lacking in force or ability)
อ่อน adj (lacking in force or ability)
อ่อนแอ adj (lacking in force or ability)
แอ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Tibetan

1 entries

སྐྱོ་པོ adj (lacking in force or ability)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

hanggre adj (lacking in force or ability)

Turkish

4 entries

açık adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
güçsüz adj (lacking in force or ability)
hafif adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)
zayıf adj (lacking in force or ability)

Turkmen

4 entries

asgyn adj (lacking in force or ability)
ejiz adj (lacking in force or ability)
gowşak adj (lacking in force or ability)
gujursyz adj (lacking in force or ability)

Ukrainian

3 entries

сла́бий adj (lacking in force or ability)
слабки́й adj (lacking in force or ability)
слабки́й adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Urdu

3 entries

اشکت adj (lacking in force or ability)
دربل adj (lacking in force or ability)
کمزور adj (lacking in force or ability)

Uyghur

2 entries

ئاجىز adj (lacking in force or ability)
كۈچسىز adj (lacking in force or ability)

Uzbek

2 entries

kuchsiz adj (lacking in force or ability)
zaif adj (lacking in force or ability)

Venetan

4 entries

debełe adj (lacking in force or ability)
debol adj (lacking in force or ability)
debole adj (lacking in force or ability)
debolo adj (lacking in force or ability)

Vietnamese

1 entries

yếu adj (lacking in force or ability)

Walloon

2 entries

flåwe adj (lacking in force or ability)
fwebe adj (lacking in force or ability)

Welsh

2 entries

gwan adj (lacking in force or ability)
gwan adj (dilute, lacking in taste or potency)

Yiddish

1 entries

שוואַך adj (lacking in force or ability)

Zhuang

1 entries

nyieg adj (lacking in force or ability)

Sample sentences

35 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Source: tatoeba (2454)

The strong will survive and the weak will die.

Source: tatoeba (19218)

The strong must help the weak.

Source: tatoeba (19219)

The strong should take care of the weak.

Source: tatoeba (19220)

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