[
UK
/wˈiːk/
]
[ US /ˈwik/ ]
[ US /ˈwik/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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deficient in intelligence or mental power
a weak mind -
deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
a faint outline
weak colors
a faint hissing sound
a faint aroma
the wan sun cast faint shadows
the faint light of a distant candle
a weak pulse -
likely to fail under stress or pressure
the weak link in the chain -
wanting in physical strength
a weak pillar -
lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
a feeble old woman
her body looked sapless -
deficient or lacking in some skill
he's weak in spelling - (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
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not having authority, political strength, or governing power
a weak president -
tending downward in price
a weak market for oil stocks -
overly diluted; thin and insipid
washy coffee
watery milk
weak tea -
(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable
a weak stress on the second syllable -
wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
I'm only a fallible human
frail humanity
How To Use weak In A Sentence
- It will definitely take a lot more tweaking to get me completely happy with it.
- Most pseudocheirids have a strongly prehensile tail (weakly so in the great glider and rock ringtail).
- The Italian was rejected because of his weak grasp of English.
- In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
- To explicate this relation, Searle and Vanderveken define weak illocutionary commitment: S1 weakly illocutionarily implies S2 iff every performance of S1 commits an agent to meeting the conditions laid down in the septuple identical to S2 (1985, p. 24). Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
- When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
- It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
- A prolonged period of low investment will weaken productivity and longterm potential growth. Times, Sunday Times
- That was an incredibly weak answer.
- Her weak façade of control did not hide her utter defenselessness and need to be wanted. Too Old for Their Age
