Meaning of weak | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
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 love.
   often
6. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
7. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
8. Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
9. Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
10. Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
11. That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
12. One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
13. Bad or uncool.
    slang
14. Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
15. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
16. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
17. Lacking in vigour or expression.
18. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
19. Tending towards lower prices.
20. Lacking contrast.

Equivalents

Examples

“The child was too weak to move the boulder.”

“They easily guessed his weak computer password.”

“a poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man”

“weak with hunger, mad with love”

“The prospects for the global economy as outlined by the IMF are the third weakest since 2001, behind only the 2008 financial crisis and the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Global growth has fallen below 2% just five times since 1970.”

“a weak timber; a weak rope”

“weak resolutions; weak virtue”

“Guard thy heart / On this weak side, where most our nature fails.”

“'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”

“That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.”

“We were served stale bread and weak tea.”

“a weak acid”

“a weak base”

“When we say that an acid is weak, we refer only to its degree of dissociation, not to its degree of corrosiveness; but it is true that those two traits often correlate, though.”

“This place is weak.”

“If evil thence ensue, / She first his weak indulgence will accuse.”

“The prosecution advanced a weak case.”

“convinced of his weak arguing”

“There are two fundamental theorems of calculus. Both relate differentiation to integration. In most calculus courses, the Second Fundamental Theorem is usually proved first and then used to prove the First Fundamental Theorem. Unfortunately, this results in a First Fundamental Theorem that is weaker than it could be.”

“a weak sentence; a weak style”

“It could turn out that An Unexpected Journey is the weakest of this trilogy, the necessary preamble before less-stultifying action and more engaging character development ensue. But, to paraphrase the sweet and stout-hearted Bilbo himself, this adventure won’t just make you late for dinner. It might make you miss breakfast and lunch, too. Only the most dedicated Middle-earthers will find that the hunger pangs are worth it.”

“Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.”

“a weak market; wheat is weak at present”

“a weak negative”

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