weaklingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwiː.klɪŋ/us/ˈwiː.klɪŋ/disapprovingsomeone who is weak, either physically or in character:
It would need more than a few exercises to turn a seven-stone weakling into a heavyweight boxer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptibility
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- wraith
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