Weak

Quick meaning: Weak is an adjective meaning Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.

Meaning

Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

a weak timber; a weak rope

weak resolutions; weak virtue

weak with hunger, mad with love

a poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man

Word Forms

• weaker
• weakest
• weake

Synonyms for weak

Depending on context, synonyms include feeble, frail, powerless, vincible, assailable, vulnerable.

Antonyms for weak

Common opposites include healthy, powerful, robust, strong, invincible, potent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impotent, feeble, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, wimpy, wimpish.

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