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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



... can cure me!" answered Pericles; but in a weak voice, as though he spoke to himself. He took his old seat in the Hemicyklion. When he had rested a while, he made Socrates a sign to come near, for he did not wish ...
— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg

... says [*De Incarnat. et Cont. Arianos, written against Apollinarius]: "When Christ says 'Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from Me; yet not My will, but Thine be done,' and again, 'The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak,' He denotes two wills—the human, which through the weakness of the flesh shrank from the passion—and His Divine will eager for the passion." Hence there was ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... weak, overshadowed with sorrow: her loss is great, the loss almost as of the widow's mite; for except her good Mother she had almost no kindred left; and as for friends— they are not rife in this world.—God be thanked withal they are not entirely non-extant! Have I not a Friend, ...
— The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. • Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

... so thick that the meal reached the surface, (b) "gruel between two waters" in which the meal, while it did not rise to the surface, did not quite fall to the bottom, and (c) "gruel under water" which was so weak and so badly boiled that he meal easily fell to the bottom. In the case of penitents the first brand of gruel was prescribed for light offences, the second kind for sins of ordinary gravity, and the "gruel under water" for extraordinary crimes (vid. Messrs. Gwynne and Purton on the Rule of Maelruin, ...
— The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore • Saint Mochuda

... sleepy, he didn't gap ez wide ez he gen'ly does—an' I'm 'feered he's a-gittin' it now." An', sir, with that, she thess gathered up her apron an' mopped her face in it an' give way. An' ez for me, I didn't seem to have no mo' backbone down my spinal colume 'n a feather bolster has, I was that weak. ...
— Sonny, A Christmas Guest • Ruth McEnery Stuart


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