weak
Definition of weak:
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part of speech: adverb
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part of speech: adjective
What yields to pressure; having little physical strength; feeble; infirm; easily broken; yielding; not strong; faint or low, as sound; having little of ingredients; not well supported by reason or argument; not having moral force.
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part of speech: adjective
Soft: wanting strength: not able to sustain a great weight: wanting health: easily overcome: feeble of mind: wanting moral force: frail: unsteady: slight or incomplete: having little of the chief ingredient: impressible: inconclusive.
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Common misspellings:
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- wea (15.6%)
- aweak (3.1%)
- weack (6.3%)
- wek (31.3%)
- whek (6.3%)
- weakup (6.3%)
- weeak (6.3%)
- waek (6.3%)
- weaked (3.1%)
- eak (6.3%)
- wask (3.1%)
- oweka (6.3%)
Usage examples for weak:
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That page is very weak now.
"Comrade Yetta" – Albert Edwards -
Tell Ernest for me that he would never have weak eyes here.
"Chicken Little Jane" – Lily Munsell Ritchie -
He's weak and afraid....
"Hilda Lessways" – Arnold Bennett -
You've got the man's face rather weak
"A Hazard of New Fortunes" – William Dean Howells