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weak
[week]
adjective
not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail.
a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
Antonyms: stronglacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm.
a weak old man; weak eyes.
not having much political strength, governing power, or authority.
a weak nation; a weak ruler.
lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate.
weak sunlight; a weak wind.
Synonyms: ineffectivelacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness.
a weak reply to the charges; one of the author's weakest novels.
lacking in logical or legal force or soundness.
a weak argument.
deficient in mental power, intelligence, or judgment.
a weak mind.
not having much moral strength or firmness, resolution, or force of character.
to prove weak under temptation; weak compliance.
deficient in amount, volume, loudness, intensity, etc.; faint; slight.
a weak current of electricity; a weak pulse.
deficient, lacking, or poor in something specified.
a hand weak in trumps; I'm weak in spelling.
deficient in the essential or usual properties or ingredients.
weak tea.
unstressed, as a syllable, vowel, or word.
(of Germanic verbs) inflected with suffixes, without inherited change of the root vowel, as English work, worked, or having a preterit ending in a dental, as English bring, brought.
(of Germanic nouns and adjectives) inflected with endings originally appropriate to stems terminating in -n, as the adjective alte in German der alte Mann (“the old man”).
(of wheat or flour) having a low gluten content or having a poor quality of gluten.
Photography., thin; not dense.
Commerce., characterized by a decline in prices.
The market was weak in the morning but rallied in the afternoon.
weak
/ wiːk /
adjective
lacking in physical or mental strength or force; frail or feeble
liable to yield, break, or give way
a weak link in a chain
lacking in resolution or firmness of character
lacking strength, power, or intensity
a weak voice
lacking strength in a particular part
a team weak in defence
not functioning as well as normal
weak eyes
easily upset
a weak stomach
lacking in conviction, persuasiveness, etc
a weak argument
lacking in political or strategic strength
a weak state
lacking the usual, full, or desirable strength of flavour
weak tea
grammar
denoting or belonging to a class of verbs, in certain languages including the Germanic languages, whose conjugation relies on inflectional endings rather than internal vowel gradation, as look, looks, looking, looked
belonging to any part-of-speech class, in any of various languages, whose inflections follow the more regular of two possible patterns Compare strong
(of a syllable) not accented or stressed
(of a fuel-air mixture) containing a relatively low proportion of fuel Compare rich
photog having low density or contrast; thin
(of an industry, market, currency, securities, etc) falling in price or characterized by falling prices
Other Word Forms
- overweak adjective
- overweakly adverb
- overweakness noun
- weakishly adverb
- weakishness noun
- weakish adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of weak1
Word History and Origins
Origin of weak1
Idioms and Phrases
- spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
A massively underrated part of Trent's game, and one that Liverpool miss greatly, is his ability to play with his weak foot.
If it is not picked up at an early age, such as in Mabon's case, the weaker eye can permanently lose vision.
The family has stressed Mr Vedam's ties to India - where ICE has said they would like to deport him to - are weak at best.
"But since the La Niña is quite weak this year, the extreme warmth in the north Pacific could be more important for forecasting the winter ahead."
Collections were especially weak in the Upper Midwest, reflecting a drop in crossings over the Canadian border, and were strongest in the richest states with the biggest shares of investment banking activity.
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