Weak

/wi(ː)k/ · adjective

Meaning

Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
2. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
3. Limp, soft.
4. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
5. (often with for) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
6. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
7. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
8. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.

Example Sentences

The child was too weak to move the boulder.

They easily guessed his weak computer password.

a poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man

weak with hunger, mad with love

The prospects for the global economy as outlined by the IMF are the third weakest since 2001, behind only the 2008 financial crisis and the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Global growth has fallen below 2% just five times since 1970.

a weak timber; a weak rope

weak resolutions; weak virtue

Guard thy heart / On this weak side, where most our nature fails.

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Word Forms

• weaker
• weakest
• weake

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