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Adjective: weak (weaker,weakest) week- Wanting in physical strength
"a weak pillar" - Overly diluted; thin and insipid
"weak tea" - watery, washy - (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
"a weak stress on the second syllable" - unaccented, light - Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- fallible, frail, imperfect - Tending downward in price
"a weak market for oil stocks" - Deficient or lacking in some skill
"he's weak in spelling" - Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
- decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly - (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
- Not having authority, political strength, or governing power
"a weak president" - Deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
"weak colours"; "a weak pulse" - faint - Likely to fail under stress or pressure
"the weak link in the chain" - Deficient in intelligence or mental power
"a weak mind"
Sounds like: week Derived forms: weaker, weakest See also: adynamic, anaemic [Brit, Cdn], anemic [N. Amer], asthenic, debilitated, delicate, dilute, diluted, down, enervated, faint, fallible, feeble, flimsy, frail, gutless, human, jerry-built, lame, namby-pamby, pale, pallid, perceptible, powerless, puny, regular, shoddy, sick, spineless, strength, stupid, tender, unskilled, unstressed, untoughened, vulnerable, wan, weakened, weakly, weakness, wishy-washy, wussy Antonym: strong Encyclopedia: Weak |