Definitions for weak

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weak weak

Spelling: [week]

IPA: /wik/

Weak is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in weak (aekw).

Definitions for weak

adjective

1. not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail:
2. lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm:
3. not having much political strength, governing power, or authority:
4. lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate:
5. lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness:
6. lacking in logical or legal force or soundness:
7. deficient in mental power, intelligence, or judgment:
8. not having much moral strength or firmness, resolution, or force of character:
9. deficient in amount, volume, loudness, intensity, etc.; faint; slight:
10. deficient, lacking, or poor in something specified:
11. deficient in the essential or usual properties or ingredients:
12. unstressed, as a syllable, vowel, or word.
13. (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.
14. (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”).
15. (of wheat or flour) having a low gluten content or having a poor quality of gluten.
16. Photography. thin; not dense.
17. Commerce. characterized by a decline in prices:

Origin of weak

1250-1300; Middle English weik Old Norse veikr; cognate with Old English wāc, Dutch week, German weich; akin to Old English wīcan to yield, give way, Old Norse vīkja to move, turn, draw back,

Examples for weak

The general rap on him is: reasonably well-intentioned but weak.

The paperwork was spotless: he had died in transit, the conjunction of a weak heart and long trip.

My hope is weak that I shall ever again see you, yet it is possible.

A lot of people think females are too weak for the job, but I know that all the men she worked with saw her as one of the guys.

Would he be strong or weak; and what would be weakness, and what strength, in a position so strange?

When the Kings were weak the nobles often managed to get hold of the State.

She had no affection for this selfish invalid, this weak, peevish bully.

For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

But beyond that point, secrecy creates its own problems: high costs and weak oversight.

Alas, his soul is willing, but his flesh is weak and he whiffs.