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Weak

adjective
(compar. weaker; superl. weakest)
1.
Wanting in physical strength.
2.
Overly diluted; thin and insipid.  Synonyms: washy, watery.  "Watery milk" , "Weak tea"
3.
(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress.  Synonyms: light, unaccented.  "A weak stress on the second syllable"
4.
Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings.  Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect.  "Frail humanity"
5.
Tending downward in price.
6.
Deficient or lacking in some skill.
7.
Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.  Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly.  "Her body looked sapless"
8.
(used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection.
9.
Not having authority, political strength, or governing power.
10.
Deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc.  Synonym: faint.  "The wan sun cast faint shadows" , "The faint light of a distant candle" , "Weak colors" , "A faint hissing sound" , "A faint aroma" , "A weak pulse"
11.
Likely to fail under stress or pressure.
12.
Deficient in intelligence or mental power.



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"Weak" Quotes from Famous Books



... portions of this army can strengthen the regular field army. At the most 150,000 men may be reckoned upon for an English expeditionary force. These troops compose at the same time the reserve of the troops stationed in the Colonies, which require reinforcements at grave crises. This constitutes the weak point in the British armament. England can employ her regular army in a Continental war so long only as all is quiet in the Colonies. This fact brings into prominence how important it will be, should war break ...
— Germany and the Next War • Friedrich von Bernhardi
... may, in its discretion, provide for the compulsory education of children between the ages of eight and twelve years, except such as are weak in body or mind, or can read and write, or are attending private schools, or are excused for cause by ...
— Civil Government of Virginia • William F. Fox
... communication between its organs and some particular part of the skin. It may be conceived that a lateral stroke, out of the direct current, must become imperceptible under the two conditions of a very weak discharge, or a very great obstacle presented by the nature and length of the conductor. Notwithstanding these considerations, it appears to me very surprising that shocks of the torpedo, strong in appearance, are not propagated ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt
... notice the shortness of the left arm, but that may have been because his left hand was leaning on his sword-hilt. Captain H—— told me he could not put on his overcoat without assistance, and that the hand is so weak he can do very little with it. There was nothing of a Hohenzollern ...
— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw
... spirit was the more remarkable because his physical organization was unusually delicate. From a child he had been weak and sickly. In the prime of manhood his complaints had been aggravated by a severe attack of small pox. He was asthmatic and consumptive. His slender frame was shaken by a constant hoarse cough. He could not sleep ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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