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Definitions for Weak

[1] not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
[2] lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm: a weak old man; weak eyes.
[3] not having much political strength, governing power, or authority: a weak nation; a weak ruler.
[4] lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate: weak sunlight; a weak wind.
[5] lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness: a weak reply to the charges; one of the author's weakest novels.
[6] lacking in logical or legal force or soundness: a weak argument.
[7] deficient in mental power, intelligence, or judgment: a weak mind.
[8] not having much moral strength or firmness, resolution, or force of character: to prove weak under temptation; weak compliance.
[9] deficient in amount, volume, loudness, intensity, etc.; faint; slight: a weak current of electricity; a weak pulse.
[10] deficient, lacking, or poor in something specified: a hand weak in trumps; I'm weak in spelling.
[11] deficient in the essential or usual properties or ingredients: weak tea.
[12] unstressed, as a syllable, vowel, or word.
[13] (of Germanic verbs) inflected with suffixes, without inherited change of the root vowel, as English work, worked, or having a preterit ending in a dental, as English bring, brought.
[14] (of Germanic nouns and adjectives) inflected with endings originally appropriate to stems terminating in -n, as the adjective alte in German der alte Mann (“the old man”).
[15] (of wheat or flour) having a low gluten content or having a poor quality of gluten.
[16] Photography . thin; not dense.
[17] Commerce . characterized by a decline in prices: The market was weak in the morning but rallied in the afternoon.
[18] lacking in physical or mental strength or force; frail or feeble
[19] liable to yield, break, or give way a weak link in a chain
[20] lacking in resolution or firmness of character
[21] lacking strength, power, or intensity a weak voice
[22] lacking strength in a particular part a team weak in defence
[23] not functioning as well as normal weak eyes easily upset a weak stomach
[24] lacking in conviction, persuasiveness, etc a weak argument
[25] lacking in political or strategic strength a weak state
[26] lacking the usual, full, or desirable strength of flavour weak tea
[27] grammar denoting or belonging to a class of verbs, in certain languages including the Germanic languages, whose conjugation relies on inflectional endings rather than internal vowel gradation, as look, looks, looking, looked belonging to any part-of-speech class, in any of various languages, whose inflections follow the more regular of two possible patterns Compare strong (def. 13)
[28] (of a syllable) not accented or stressed
[29] (of a fuel-air mixture) containing a relatively low proportion of fuel Compare rich (def. 13)
[30] photog having low density or contrast; thin
[31] (of an industry, market, currency, securities, etc) falling in price or characterized by falling prices

Words related to Weak

shaky, uncertain, hesitant, weakened, powerless, fragile, anemic, sickly, wobbly, frail, sluggish, feeble, unsteady, indecisive, nervous, insecure, ineffectual, unstable, soft, poor

Words nearby Weak

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Origin of Weak

1250–1300; Middle English weik < Old Norse veikr; cognate with Old English wāc, Dutch week, German weich; akin to Old English wīcan to yield, give way, Old Norse vīkja to move, turn, draw back, German weichen to yield

Other words from Weak

o·ver·weak , adjective
o·ver·weak·ly , adverb
o·ver·weak·ness , noun

Word origin for Weak

Old English wāc soft, miserable; related to Old Saxon wēk, Old High German weih, Old Norse veikr

Synonyms for Weak

anemic, feeble, fragile, frail, hesitant, powerless, shaky, sickly, sluggish, uncertain, unsteady, weakened, wobbly, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, effete, enervated, exhausted, faint, flaccid, flimsy, forceless, impuissant, infirm, insubstantial, irresolute, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, limp, makeshift, out of gas, prostrate, puny, rickety, rocky, rotten, senile, spent, spindly, supine, tender, torpid, undependable, unsound, unsubstantial, wasted, wavering, weakly