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• adjective
Lacking physical strength, energy, or muscular power; frail or easily exhausted.
"After spending a full week in bed recovering from the flu, her legs still felt too weak to climb the stairs."
Not logically convincing, well-supported, or persuasive; deficient in evidence or validity.
"The defense attorney presented a weak excuse that failed to convince the jury."
Lacking firmness of character, resolve, or authority; easily influenced or irresolute.
"The committee needed a decisive chairperson rather than a weak leader who yielded to every complaint."
Low in intensity, brightness, volume, or signal strength; faint or indistinct.
"We struggled to make the phone call because the cellular signal was extremely weak in the mountain valley."
Heavily diluted or containing a small proportion of a flavoring or active ingredient relative to water or liquid.
"He complained that the hotel served lukewarm, weak coffee that tasted mostly like hot water."
Word Nuance & Usage
Do not confuse 'weak' with its homophone 'week', a noun referring to a seven-day period of time.
• Rhymes for weak
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in Middle English from Old Norse 'veikr' (meaning 'pliant, yielding, or frail'), which gradually displaced the native Old English cognate 'wac', both descending from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'to yield or give way'.