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Definition of Weak
Pronunciation: wēk | a. | 1. | | | 1. | Wanting physical strength. | | 2. | Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted. | | 2. | Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. | | 3. | Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope. | | 3. | Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate. | | 3. | (Gram.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a). | | 4. | Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship. | | 4. | Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish. | | 4. | (Stock Exchange) Tending toward a lower price or lower prices; as, wheat is weak; a weak market. | | 5. | Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant. | | 5. | Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering. | | 5. | (Card Playing) Lacking in good cards; deficient as to number or strength; as, a hand weak in trumps. | | 6. | Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress. | | 6. | Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue. | | 6. | (Photog.) Lacking contrast; as, a weak negative. | | 7. | Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint. | | 7. | Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty. | | 8. | Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine. | | 8. | Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case. | | 9. | Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army. | | 9. | Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style. | | 10. | Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble. | | 11. | Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state. | | 12. | (Stock Exchange) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market. | | v. t. & i. | 1. | To make or become weak; to weaken. |
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pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, pigeonhearted, pitch, pitched, pithless, plastic, pliable, pooped, postlapsarian, posttonic, powerless, pregnable, prodigal, pulpy, puny, rabbity, rare, rarefied, ravaged with age, ready to drop, receptive, recidivist, recidivistic, relaxed, remiss, responsive, retroflex, rickety, rootless, rounded, rubbery, run ragged, run to seed, run-down, rusty, sagging, sallow, sapless, savorless, scarcely heard, seedy, semivisible, semivowel, senile, shadowy, shaky, shriveled, sickly, sinewless, sissified, sissy, slack, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, slipshod, sloppy, small, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, sonant, spiceless, spindly, spineless, stale, stopped, strengthless, stressed, stricken in years, suasible, subaudible, subdued, subtle, suggestible, surd, surmountable, susceptible, svelte, swayable, syllabic, sylphlike, tallow-faced, tasteless, tellurian, tense, tenuous, thick, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, throaty, timeworn, timid, timorous, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, tonal, toneless, tonic, tottering, tottery, trimming, twangy, unaccented, unangelic, unauthoritative, unbelievable, uncertain, unchaste, unclean, unclear, uncolored, unconvincing, undefined, undependable, unfit, unflavored, ungodly, ungood, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unplain, unproved, unqualified, unrecognizable, unrefreshed, unreliable, unrestored, unrestrained, unrighteous, unrigorous, unrounded, unsaintly, unsavory, unsound, unstable, unstressed, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsuitable, unsure, unsustained, unvirtuous, vacillating, vague, vapid, velar, vincible, virtueless, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, wan, wanton, washed-out, washy, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, waterish, waxen, way-weary, wayward, wayworn, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-voiced, weak-willed, weakened, weakhearted, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, whey-faced, whispered, white, white-livered, wide, willowy, wilting, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy, withered, without any weight, wizened, wobbly, worn, worn-down, yellow
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