adjective
- Wanting in physical strength.
- usage: "a weak pillar"
- Overly diluted; thin and insipid.
- usage: "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"
- Used of vowels or syllables. ( pronounced with little or no stress)
- usage: "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable"
- synonyms: unaccented, light
- Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e. G. Divine beings.
- usage: "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"
- Tending downward in price.
- usage: "a weak market for oil stocks"
- Deficient or lacking in some skill.
- usage: "he's weak in spelling"
- Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.
- usage: "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
- Used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection. (
- Not having authority, political strength, or governing power.
- usage: "a weak president"
- Deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc.
- usage: "a faint outline"; "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"
- synonyms: faint
- Likely to fail under stress or pressure.
- usage: "the weak link in the chain"
- Deficient in intelligence or mental power.
- usage: "a weak mind"
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