Word Finder - weak

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Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.

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The child was too weak to move the boulder.

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Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.

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a weak timber; a weak rope

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Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.

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weak resolutions; weak virtue

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Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.

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We were served stale bread and weak tea.

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(grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:

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That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.

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a weak acid;  a weak base

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One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.

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Bad or uncool.

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This place is weak.

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Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)

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Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

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Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.

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The prosecution advanced a weak case.

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Lacking in vigour or expression.

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a weak sentence; a weak style

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Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

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Tending towards lower prices.

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a weak market; wheat is weak at present

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Lacking contrast.

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a weak negative

She was too weak to move.

It was all she could do to remain upright on tingling weak legs.

They made her weak and frightened.

Too weak to continue, she dropped to her knees.

His voice was weak, as if he were far away.

At barely ten years old, he'd been too weak to fight off full-grown men, too weak to protect her.

Still, the rich hardwood floor reflected the weak morning sun in a cheerful manner that spawned reluctance to continue the tour.

I am weak, he said.

He unexpectedly felt himself ridiculous, weak, and alone, with no ground to stand on.

In the past, a weak group unjustly persecuted by a strong group had few options.

Exhaustion left her feeling cold and weak, which was probably why her foot slipped on the edge of a rock.

Her presence would bolster his weak will.

She was too weak.

You didn't used to be a weak, puny human.

She felt weak and tired.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

He seems weak, and his eyes are dull.

With an outstretched hand she touched the wall and managed to feel her way around the corner until she could see the weak glow of the near-extinguished light far ahead.

A human was weak.

I love to play with little sister, she is weak and small baby.

It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and thin face.

Meeting Bagration's weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be Kutuzov's whole army.

Natasha had grown thin and pale and physically so weak that they all talked about her health, and this pleased her.

She felt weak, but she was alive.

Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.

There had been none since Claire, whose powers had been so weak, she couldn't even be blood bound.

She'd never been moody or wimpy or weak!

It was Cynthia's voice, weak and yet strong at the same time.

She'd never thought a creature like him weak.

He grew weak from hunger and thirst.

Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles.

It must be so, but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only now gradually opening before me.

Had Speranski sprung from the same class as himself and possessed the same breeding and traditions, Bolkonski would soon have discovered his weak, human, unheroic sides; but as it was, Speranski's strange and logical turn of mind inspired him with respect all the more because he did not quite understand him.

You talk about our position, the left flank weak and the right flank too extended, he went on.

He was too weak to chase her down this time, and she knew it.

We've identified weak points in your organization.

Her legs felt weak, and she sat heavily on the curb, struggling to control her breathing so she didn't pass out.

She wasn't in tip-top shape, but she wasn't weak!

She threw up again, sick and weak.

He strikes where men are weak.

Her body was weak but working, and there were more of the odd sugar cubes beside her pillow.

If the weak nation will not willingly do the bidding of the strong one, then it is made to.

The countess finished her prayers and came to the bed with a stern face, but seeing, that Natasha's head was covered, she smiled in her kind, weak way.

The count was so weak, and trusted Mitenka so much, and was so good-natured, that everybody took advantage of him and things were going from bad to worse.

How can they need reinforcements when they already have half the army directed against a weak, unentrenched Russian wing?

Makar Alexeevich, the brother of my late master--may the kingdom of heaven be his--has remained here, but he is in a weak state as you know, said the old servant.

That she had not heard from Prince Andrew himself, Princess Mary attributed to his being too weak to write or to his considering the long journey too hard and too dangerous for her and his son.

He seized the door, making a final effort to hold it back--to lock it was no longer possible--but his efforts were weak and clumsy and the door, pushed from behind by that terror, opened and closed again.

Not only did his contemporaries, carried away by their passions, talk in this way, but posterity and history have acclaimed Napoleon as grand, while Kutuzov is described by foreigners as a crafty, dissolute, weak old courtier, and by Russians as something indefinite--a sort of puppet useful only because he had a Russian name.

His descendants were weak men and they too ruled France badly.