Weak

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
  • adj. Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance: a weak link in a chain.
  • adj. Lacking firmness of character or strength of will.
  • adj. Lacking the proper strength or amount of ingredients: weak coffee.
  • adj. Lacking the ability to function normally or fully: a weak heart.
  • adj. Lacking aptitude or skill: a weak student; weak in math.
  • adj. Lacking or resulting from a lack of intelligence.
  • adj. Lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing: a weak argument.
  • adj. Lacking authority or the power to govern.
  • adj. Lacking potency or intensity: weak sunlight.
  • adj. Linguistics Of, relating to, or being those verbs in Germanic languages that form a past tense and past participle by means of a dental suffix, as start, started; have, had; bring, brought.
  • adj. Linguistics Of, relating to, or being the inflection of nouns or adjectives in Germanic languages with a declensional suffix that historically contained an n.
  • adj. Unstressed or unaccented in pronunciation or poetic meter. Used of a word or syllable.
  • adj. Designating a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that is unstressed in normal speech, such as a preposition.
  • adj. Tending downward in price: a weak market for oil stocks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
  • adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
  • adj. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
  • adj. One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
  • adj. Bad or uncool.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wanting physical strength.
  • adj. Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
  • adj. Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
  • adj. Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact.
  • adj. Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft.
  • adj. Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome.
  • adj. Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
  • adj. Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength.
  • adj. Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office.
  • adj. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.
  • adj. Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless.
  • adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
  • adj. Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
  • adj. Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
  • adj. Wanting in power to influence or bind.
  • adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
  • adj. Wanting in point or vigor of expression.
  • adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
  • adj. Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation.
  • adj. Tending towards lower prices.
  • adj.
  • adj. Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).
  • adj. Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).
  • adj. Tending toward a lower price or lower prices.
  • adj. Lacking in good cards; deficient as to number or strength.
  • adj. Lacking contrast.
  • v. To make or become weak; to weaken.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bending under pressure, weight, or force; pliant, or pliable; yielding; lacking stiffness or firmness: as, the weak stem of a plant.
  • Lacking strength; not strong.
  • Deficient in bodily strength, vigor, or robustness; feeble, either constitutionally or from age, disease, etc.; infirm; of the organs of the body, deficient in functional energy, activity, or the like: as, a weak stomach; weak eyes.
  • Lacking moral strength or firmness; liable to waver or succumb when urged or tempted; deficient in steady principle or in force of character.
  • Lacking mental power, ability, or balance; simple; silly; foolish.
  • Unequal to a particular need or emergency; ineffectual or inefficacious; inadequate or unsatisfactory; incapable; impotent.
  • Incapable of support; not to be sustained or maintained: unsupported by truth, reason, or justice: as, a weak claim, assertion, argument, etc.
  • Deficient in force of utterance or sound; having little volume, loudness, or sonorousness; low; feeble; small.
  • Not abundantly or sufficiently impregnated with the essential, required, or usual ingredients, or with stimulating or nourishing substances or properties; not of the usual strength: as, weak tea; weak broth; a weak infusion; weak punch.
  • Deficient in pith, pregnancy, or point; lacking in vigor of expression: as, a weak sentence; a weak style.
  • Resulting from or indicating lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; arising from want of moral courage, of self-denial, or of determination; injudicious: as, a weak compliance; a weak surrender.
  • Slight; inconsiderable; trifling.
  • (I) In grammar, infiected— as a verb, by regular syllabic addition instead of by change of the radical vowel;
  • as a noun or an adjective, with less full or original differences of case-and number-forms: opposed to strong (which see).
  • Poorly supplied; deficient: as, a hand weak in trumps.
  • Tending downward in price: as, a weak market; corn was weak.
  • To make weak; weaken.
  • To soften.
  • To become weak.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
  • adj. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
  • adj. (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
  • adj. (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
  • adj. wanting in physical strength
  • adj. deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
  • adj. deficient in intelligence or mental power
  • adj. deficient or lacking in some skill
  • adj. not having authority, political strength, or governing power
  • adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid
  • adj. tending downward in price
  • adj. likely to fail under stress or pressure
  • Equivalent
    frail    human    unstressed    regular    faint    gutless    anemic    wan    anæmic    adynamic   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    strong   
    Form
    weakness    weakling    weak sister    weaken   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    feeble    infirm    sickly    debilitated    enfeebled    exhausted    pliant    frail    soft    low   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cheek    Creek    Dominique    Greek    Martinique    Monique    Mozambique    Sikh    Tariq    Zeke   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    feeble    strong    foolish    thin    motives    short    vowels    dissuasive    it.    rhymester