EGAVE

weak

About 32.59 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
    The child was too weak to move the boulder.
  2. adjective Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
    a weak timber; a weak rope
  3. adjective Limp, soft.
  4. adjective Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
    weak resolutions; weak virtue
  5. adjective Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
  6. adjective Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
    We were served stale bread and weak tea.
  7. adjective English Wikipedia has an article on:Weak inflectionWikipedia Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
    The verb to walk is weak because it has a past tense of walked and all forms are inflected by adding the typical suffix (ie is regular) to the stem walk- (ie has no vowel changes).
  8. adjective Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense marked by /-d-/, /-t-/, or /-ð-/.
    The verb to walk is weak because it has a past tense of walked and all forms are inflected by adding the typical suffix (ie is regular) to the stem walk- (ie has no vowel changes).

Similar words

impotent feeble wishy-washy namby-pamby wimpy wimpish nerveless spineless faint asthenic

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Word family

weaker weakest weaklier weakliest weakly

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