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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



... the mines of California, and in the letter were several small flakes of gold wrapped in a bit of paper. We had so long hoped against hope that the sight of the familiar writing caused the greatest excitement. Poor mother could hardly hold out any longer and the news was too much for her weak body, for she was just convalescing from weeks of sickness brought on by hope deferred and waiting and watching each day for a word from the wanderers. We were obliged to refrain for her sake, but we were all like as if news came from the dead—ten long months and no word. After we were ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson
... chills with visionary fears, Or bends to servile tameness with conceits Of shame, of evil, or of base defect, Fantastic and delusive. Here the slave Who droops abash'd when sullen Pomp surveys His humbler habit; here the trembling wretch Unnerved and struck with Terror's icy bolts, Spent in weak wailings, drown'd in shameful tears, At every dream of danger: here, subdued 220 By frontless laughter and the hardy scorn Of old, unfeeling vice, the abject soul, Who, blushing, half resigns the candid praise Of Temperance and Honour; half ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside
... Government. Whatever the lofty aims of either of the contending hosts, they sought to win by war and this was war. It was not to be wondered at that this spirit should begin to poison the springs of life in the minds of the weak and send them forth to prey on their fellows. It was not to be wondered at that men planned in secret to advance their own interests at the expense of their fellows, to climb the ladder of wealth and fame in this black hour no matter on whose dead ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... school maintained for the education of Negroes.[1] It was evident that this institution had not been run so clandestinely but that the opposition to the education of Negroes in that city had probably been too weak to bring about the close of the school at an earlier date. Mrs. Douglass and her pupils were arrested and brought before the court, where she was charged with violating the laws of the State. The defendant acknowledged her guilt, but, pleading ignorance of the law, was discharged on the condition ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson
... Yorkers and Bostonians with Jenny Lind are weak and cold compared with the ovations which Jasmin has received. At a recitation given shortly before my visit to Auch, the ladies present actually tore the flowers and feathers out of their bonnets, wove them into ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles


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