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weak

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adjective

weaker, weakest.
  1. not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail:

    a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.

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  2. lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm:

    a weak old man; weak eyes.

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  3. not having much political strength, governing power, or authority:

    a weak nation; a weak ruler.

  4. lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate:

    weak sunlight; a weak wind.

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  5. lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness:

    a weak reply to the charges; one of the author's weakest novels.

  6. lacking in logical or legal force or soundness:

    a weak argument.

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  7. deficient in mental power, intelligence, or judgment:

    a weak mind.

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  8. not having much moral strength or firmness, resolution, or force of character:

    to prove weak under temptation; weak compliance.

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  9. deficient in amount, volume, loudness, intensity, etc.; faint; slight:

    a weak current of electricity; a weak pulse.

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  10. deficient, lacking, or poor in something specified:

    a hand weak in trumps; I'm weak in spelling.

  11. deficient in the essential or usual properties or ingredients:

    weak tea.

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  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 (鈥渢he old man鈥).
  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:

    The market was weak in the morning but rallied in the afternoon.



weak

/ 飞颈藧办 /

adjective

  1. lacking in physical or mental strength or force; frail or feeble
  2. liable to yield, break, or give way

    a weak link in a chain

  3. lacking in resolution or firmness of character
  4. lacking strength, power, or intensity

    a weak voice

  5. lacking strength in a particular part

    a team weak in defence

    1. not functioning as well as normal

      weak eyes

    2. easily upset

      a weak stomach

  6. lacking in conviction, persuasiveness, etc

    a weak argument

  7. lacking in political or strategic strength

    a weak state

  8. lacking the usual, full, or desirable strength of flavour

    weak tea

  9. grammar
    1. 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
    2. belonging to any part-of-speech class, in any of various languages, whose inflections follow the more regular of two possible patterns Compare strong
  10. (of a syllable) not accented or stressed
  11. (of a fuel-air mixture) containing a relatively low proportion of fuel Compare rich
  12. photog having low density or contrast; thin
  13. (of an industry, market, currency, securities, etc) falling in price or characterized by falling prices
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞飞别补办颈蝉丑濒测, adverb
  • 藞飞别补办颈蝉丑苍别蝉蝉, noun
  • 藞飞别补办颈蝉丑, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辞顎僾别谤路飞别补办顎 adjective
  • 辞顎僾别谤路飞别补办顎僱y adverb
  • 辞顎僾别谤路飞别补办顎僴ess noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of weak1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English weik, from Old Norse veikr; cognate with Old English 飞腻肠, Dutch week, German weich; akin to Old English 飞墨肠补苍 鈥渢o yield, give way,鈥 Old Norse 惫墨办箩补 鈥渢o move, turn, draw back,鈥 German weichen 鈥渢o yield鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of weak1

Old English 飞腻肠 soft, miserable; related to Old Saxon 飞脓办, Old High German weih, Old Norse veikr
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Idioms and Phrases

  • spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
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Synonym Study

Weak, decrepit, feeble, weakly imply a lack of strength or of good health. Weak means not physically strong, because of extreme youth, old age, illness, etc.: weak after an attack of fever. Decrepit means old and broken in health to a marked degree: decrepit and barely able to walk. Feeble denotes much the same as weak, but connotes being pitiable or inferior: feeble and almost senile. Weakly suggests a long-standing sickly condition, a state of chronic bad health: A weakly child may become a strong adult.
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The lesson 鈥 which applies in everything from forestry and urban planning to radically remaking government 鈥 is that monocultures that appear more efficient are actually far more fragile, more vulnerable and weaker than polycultures.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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