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Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- The child was too weak to move the boulder.
- They easily guessed his weak computer password.
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Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
- a weak timber; a weak rope
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Limp, soft.
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Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
- weak resolutions; weak virtue
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Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.often
- 'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch You know that I'm weak for you Can't help myself I love you and nobody else
- It’s really good to hear your voice Sayin' my name, it sounds so sweet Comin' from the lips of an angel Hearin' those words, it makes me weak
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Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
- We were served stale bread and weak tea.
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Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:; Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense marked by /-d-/, /-t-/, or /-ð-/.
- The verb to walk is weak because it has a past tense of walked and all forms are inflected by adding the typical suffix (ie is regular) to the stem walk- (ie has no vowel changes).
- The verb to run is strong, not weak, because the past tense is ran.
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Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:; Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
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Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:; Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
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Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:; 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.
- In some Semitic languages such as Akkadian, some or all gutturals are weak and often disappear, but in others such as Arabic and Ugaritic, they are strong and never disappear.
- The reflexes of the Proto-Semitic verb *mawut- (“to die”) are often weak due to the presence of w, for example: Arabic مَاتَ (māta), Hebrew מֵת (mēṯ), and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎚 (mt /māta/).
syn. anemic · breakable · broken-down · damaged · debilitated · decrepit · delicate · dickless · effete · enervated · enfeebled · exhausted
ant. healthy · powerful · robust · strong · invincible · potent · able-bodied · athletic