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not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail.

lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm.

not having much political strength, governing power, or authority.

lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate.

lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness.

lacking in logical or legal force or soundness.

deficient in mental power, intelligence, or judgment.

not having much moral strength or firmness, resolution, or force of character.

deficient in amount, volume, loudness, intensity, etc.; faint; slight.

deficient, lacking, or poor in something specified.

deficient in the essential or usual properties or ingredients.

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.