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weak
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adjective
- not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail:
a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
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- lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm:
a weak old man; weak eyes.
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- not having much political strength, governing power, or authority:
a weak nation; a weak ruler.
- lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate:
weak sunlight; a weak wind.
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- lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness:
a weak reply to the charges; one of the author's weakest novels.
- lacking in logical or legal force or soundness:
a weak argument.
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- deficient in mental power, intelligence, or judgment:
a weak mind.
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- not having much moral strength or firmness, resolution, or force of character:
to prove weak under temptation; weak compliance.
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- deficient in amount, volume, loudness, intensity, etc.; faint; slight:
a weak current of electricity; a weak pulse.
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- deficient, lacking, or poor in something specified:
a hand weak in trumps; I'm weak in spelling.
- deficient in the essential or usual properties or ingredients:
weak tea.
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- unstressed, as a syllable, vowel, or word.
- (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.
- (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”).
- (of wheat or flour) having a low gluten content or having a poor quality of gluten.
- Photography. thin; not dense.
- Commerce. characterized by a decline in prices:
The market was weak in the morning but rallied in the afternoon.
weak
/ ɾː /
adjective
- lacking in physical or mental strength or force; frail or feeble
- liable to yield, break, or give way
a weak link in a chain
- lacking in resolution or firmness of character
- lacking strength, power, or intensity
a weak voice
- lacking strength in a particular part
a team weak in defence
- not functioning as well as normal
weak eyes
- easily upset
a weak stomach
- lacking in conviction, persuasiveness, etc
a weak argument
- lacking in political or strategic strength
a weak state
- lacking the usual, full, or desirable strength of flavour
weak tea
- 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
- (of a syllable) not accented or stressed
- (of a fuel-air mixture) containing a relatively low proportion of fuel Compare rich
- photog having low density or contrast; thin
- (of an industry, market, currency, securities, etc) falling in price or characterized by falling prices
Derived Forms
- ˈɱ쾱, adverb
- ˈɱ쾱Ա, noun
- ˈɱ쾱, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- v·ɱ adjective
- v·ɱly adverb
- v·ɱness noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of weak1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of weak1
Idioms and Phrases
- spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The following should be alarm sirens for anyone desperate for some hope that Trump's “shock and awe” campaign and political power are getting weaker.
In a comment on Facebook, a man wrote: "Some weak people that walk this earth, disgusting behaviour."
Business investment is predicted to be weaker as many firms become more cautious amid "high levels of uncertainty" in global trade.
The lesson — which applies in everything from forestry and urban planning to radically remaking government — is that monocultures that appear more efficient are actually far more fragile, more vulnerable and weaker than polycultures.
Deutsche Bank AG this week warned of a structural downtrend for the dollar in the coming years, which could knock the U.S. currency to its weakest level in more than a decade against the euro.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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