weak
wanting in physical strength
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,239 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,707 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- wanting in physical strength a weak pillar
- overly diluted; thin and insipid also: watery, washy washy coffeewatery milk
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress also: unaccented, light a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllablea weak stress on the second syllable
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings also: fallible, frail, imperfect I'm only a fallible humanfrail humanity
- tending downward in price a weak market for oil stocks
- deficient or lacking in some skill he's weak in spelling
weak in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Who is strong, If these be weak?
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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There are few men without their weak sides.
The Station · William Carleton · Chapter 1
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Indeed, he was so weak from his long struggle that he was glad to.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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He was a man of weak mind,--one of those marked in advance to play the part of eternal dupes.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Powerful it promised to be; exciting it promised to be; but weak it becomes, and, now and again, wearisome.
Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1