weak in English

adjective

1

lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; lacking physical strength and energy.

she was recovering from the flu and was very weak

synonyms: frail, feeble, delicate, fragile, infirm, sick, sickly, debilitated, incapacitated, ailing, indisposed, decrepit, tired, fatigued, exhausted, anemic, weedy

2

liable to break or give way under pressure; easily damaged.

the salamander's tail may be broken off at a weak spot near the base

3

lacking intensity or brightness.

a weak light from a single street lamp

synonyms: dim, pale, wan, faint, feeble, muted

4

denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by addition of a suffix (in English, typically -ed ); contrasted with strong.

Some phrasal verbs prefer a weak form (contrast The car sped up the hill and The car speeded up).

5

of, relating to, or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts only at distances less than about 10 −15 cm, is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions, and conserves neither strangeness, parity, nor isospin.

Thus, the strengths of the electromagnetic, weak , and strong forces depend upon the energy at which they are measured.

adjective

frail, feeble, delicate, fragile, infirm, sick, sickly, debilitated, incapacitated, ailing, indisposed, decrepit, tired, fatigued, exhausted, anemic, weedy
inadequate, poor, feeble, defective, faulty, deficient, imperfect, substandard
unconvincing, untenable, tenuous, implausible, unsatisfactory, poor, inadequate, feeble, flimsy, lame, hollow, pathetic
spineless, craven, cowardly, pusillanimous, timid, irresolute, indecisive, ineffectual, inept, effete, meek, tame, ineffective, impotent, soft, faint-hearted, yellow, weak-kneed, gutless, chicken
dim, pale, wan, faint, feeble, muted
indistinct, muffled, muted, hushed, low, faint, thready, thin
watery, diluted, dilute, watered down, thin, tasteless, flavorless, bland, insipid, wishy-washy
unenthusiastic, feeble, halfhearted, lame
washy, watery
sapless, infirm, rickety, decrepit, feeble, weakly, debile
imperfect, fallible, frail
faint
unaccented, light

Use "weak" in a sentence

1. You're weak.

2. The weak get taken.

3. The humans are weak.

4. Don't victimise the weak.

5. 'Weak' and 'tea' collocate.

6. The weak gain strength through effrontery and the strong grow weak because of inhibitions.

7. By using weak noncompact types conditions, we obtain an existence theorem of generalized weak solutions to (cp), improving the results of weak solutions in , .

8. My bones grow weak.

9. Makes us appear weak.

10. Don't victimize the weak.

11. Your brother is weak.

12. "Weak to very weak sandstone and siltstone" was found, just metres below the surface.

13. So I could rewrite the same weak acid equilibrium as a weak base equilibrium.

14. His pulse is very weak.

15. It will be weak, deformed.

16. Our country has grown weak.

17. That'll astonish Timothy's weak nerves.

18. He has a weak liver.

19. Aggregation is a weak association

20. I got weak after typhus.

21. Its skull was relatively weak.

22. He looked weak and sickly.

23. Not to be weak and pathetic, and leaning on a man as weak as him.

24. This has a weak flavor.

25. We are weak, vain creatures.

26. It's a little bit weak.

27. They were weak and weary.

28. That's where he went weak.

29. Weak and Beggarly Things Today

30. They look thin and weak.

31. The fund supports weak currencies.

32. He had a weak bladder.

33. They're so weak and pathetic.

34. 3 Strengthen the weak hands,

35. The mare looks quite weak.

36. Alabastrine gypsum is a weak rock and coarse-sized porphyritic gypsum is classified as very weak

37. Or do we need to speak of Absurdisms? I like movements that have unsteady, or weak, borders – “weak” is very much a buzzword in critical theory at the moment, there’s the idea of “weak theory” and weak affects

38. Fully weak and Contemptibly vulner able

39. Identifying weak Bases and strong Bases

40. I'M VERY WEAK AND ACHY. REALLY.

41. There's no room for the weak.

42. Thirdly, China became increasingly internally weak.

43. She managed a weak, unconvincing smile.

44. He's just a weak-kneed coward.

45. Brachiosaur is weak against Ice-element

46. Anomalously weak solar convection Shravan M

47. Relating to or exhibiting Asthenia; weak

48. She suffered from a weak heart.

49. He taunted me for being weak.

50. His weak voice was almost inaudible.