weak
/wi(ː)k/
Lacking in force or ability; Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; Limp, soft; Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.
- comparative
- weaker
- superlative
- weakest
Meanings
- 1
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability
He is weak in English.
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Tom is small and weak.
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- 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
Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such loverare
- 6
Dilute, lacking in taste or potencyrare
- 7
Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense marked by /-d-/, /-t-/, or /-ð-/ — Displaying a particular kind of inflection, includingrare
- 8
Showing less distinct grammatical endings — Displaying a particular kind of inflection, includingrare
- 9
Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word — Displaying a particular kind of inflection, includingrare
- 10
Related to, containing, or being a consonant which is prone to disappearing in some inflections, in most applicable languages including (but not limited to) w and y — Displaying a particular kind of inflection, includingrare