Weak

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
 * The child was too weak to move the boulder.
 * They easily guessed his weak computer password.
 * 1) Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
 * We were served stale bread and weak tea.
 * 1)  Regular in inflection, especially of verbs.
 * 2)  One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
 * 3)  Bad or uncool.
 * This place is weak.
 * 1)    Good or cool ( we had a weak time ) slang in P.E.I., Canada.

Synonyms

 * : feeble, frail, powerless
 * : dilute, watery

Antonyms

 * : healthy, powerful, robust, strong
 * : potent, robust, strong

Derived terms

 * weaken
 * weakling
 * weakness
 * weak sister

Adverbs for Weak
pathetically; terribly; unusually; naturally; extremely; inordinately; significantly; palpably; languidly; remarkably; strangely; curiously; unexpectedly; surprisingly; unaccountably; distressingly;  disappointingly; fatally; mortally; alarmingly; unfortunately.

Thesaurus
Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, abulic, accented, accessible, achromatic, achromic, afraid, airy, alveolar, amenable, anemic, anile, anthropocentric, anthropological, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, ashen, ashy, assailable, assimilated, asthenic, attackable, attenuate, attenuated, back, backsliding, barely audible, barytone, beatable, bilabial, blear, bleared, bleary, bled white, bloodless, blurred, blurry, boyish, broad, bungling, cacuminal, cadaverous, careless, carnal, central, cerebral, checked, chicken, chickenhearted, chloranemic, close, colorless, confused, conquerable, consonant, consonantal, continuant, coward, cowardly, cowed, crabbed, dark, daunted, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, decrepit, decrescendo, delicate, dental, diaphanous, dickey, dilute, diluted, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismayed, dissimilated, distant, doddered, doddering, doddery, dorsal, drooping, droopy, dull, earthy, easy, easygoing, effete, emasculate, enervated, enfeebled, erring, ethereal, etiolated, expugnable, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, fagged, faint, faint-voiced, fainthearted, fainting, faintish, fallen, fallow, fatigued, fearful, featherweight, feeble, feebleminded, feeling faint, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, finite, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flat, flavorless, fleshly, flimsy, floppy, fluctuant, foggy, footsore, forceless, fossilized, fragile, frail, frazzled, front, funking, funky, fuzzy, gauzy, gentle, gerontal, gerontic, ghastly, girlish, glide, glossal, glottal, gone, good and tired, gossamer, gracile, gray, gruelly, gutless, guttural, haggard, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, hard, hazy, heavy, henhearted, hesitant, high, hominal, homocentric, hueless, human, humanistic, hypochromic, ill-defined, imbecile, impotent, imprecise, impressionable, improbable, impure, inadequate, inane, incompetent, inconceivable, inconclusive, inconspicuous, incredible, indefinite, indifferent, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, infirm, influenceable, insecure, insipid, insubstantial, intimidated, intonated, invertebrate, irresolute, jaded, jejune, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackluster, lacy, languid, languorous, lapsed, lax, leaden, lenient, light, lightweight, lily-livered, limber, limp, lingual, liquid, listless, livid, loose, low, low-profile, lurid, lusterless, lustless, malleable, man-centered, marrowless, mat, mealy, merely glimpsed, mid, mild, milk-and-water, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, misty, monophthongal, mortal, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mousy, movable, muddy, mummylike, murmured, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, negligent, nerveless, neutral, no-account, obscure, occlusive, of easy virtue, of no account, only human, open, open-minded, out of focus, overindulgent, overpermissive, overtimid, overtimorous, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, palsied, panic-prone, panicky, papery, papery-skinned, pappy, pasty, peccable, penetrable, permissive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, pigeonhearted, pitch, pitched, pithless, plastic, pliable, pliant, pooped, poor, postlapsarian, posttonic, powerless, pregnable, prodigal, pulpy, puny, rabbity, rare, rarefied, ravaged with age, ready to drop, receptive, recidivist, recidivistic, relaxed, remiss, responsive, retroflex, rickety, rootless, rounded, rubbery, run ragged, run to seed, run-down, rusty, sagging, sallow, sapless, savorless, scarcely heard, seedy, semivisible, semivowel, senile, shadowy, shaky, shriveled, sickly, sinewless, sissified, sissy, slack, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, slipshod, sloppy, small, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, sonant, spiceless, spindly, spineless, stale, stopped, strengthless, stressed, stricken in years, strong, suasible, subaudible, subdued, subtle, suggestible, surd, surmountable, susceptible, svelte, swayable, syllabic, sylphlike, tallow-faced, tasteless, tellurian, tense, tenuous, thick, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, throaty, timeworn, timid, timorous, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, tonal, toneless, tonic, tottering, tottery, trimming, twangy, unaccented, unangelic, unauthoritative, unbelievable, uncertain, unchaste, unclean, unclear, uncolored, unconvincing, undefined, undependable, unfit, unflavored, ungodly, ungood, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unplain, unproved, unqualified, unrecognizable, unrefreshed, unreliable, unrestored, unrestrained, unrighteous, unrigorous, unrounded, unsaintly, unsavory, unsound, unstable, unstressed, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsuitable, unsure, unsustained, unvirtuous, vacillating, vague, vapid, velar, vincible, virtueless, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, vulnerable, wan, wanton, washed-out, washy, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, wavering, waxen, way-weary, wayward, wayworn, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-voiced, weak-willed, weakened, weakhearted, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, whey-faced, whispered, white, white-livered, wide, willowy, wilting, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy, withered, without any weight, wizened, wobbly, worn, worn-down, yellow

Etymology
weike, from veikr "weak," cognate with Old English wīcan "to yield." Proto-Indo-European base *weik- "to bend, wind". Replaced the native Old English wac:.

Translations

 * Arabic: ضعيف
 * Armenian: թույլ (t'uyl),
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სუსტი, უძლური, უღონო
 * German:
 * Greek: αδύναμος
 * Hebrew: חלש
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: febla, debila
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latin: infirmus
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, fraca,  fraca
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lag
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: svag
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Welsh:
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: թույլ (t'uyl)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Irish:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lag
 * Swedish: svag
 * Welsh:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: 弱変化の
 * Latin: legitimus
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: svag


 * Armenian: թույլ (t'uyl)
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: heikko
 * Ido: debila


 * Japanese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: svag


 * Finnish: huono


 * Hungarian:


 * : слаб, слаба , слабо (slab, slaba, slabo)
 * : 微弱 (wēiruò)
 * : malforta
 * : faible m/f
 * : αδύνατος, αδύνατη , αδύνατο (aðínatos, aðínati, aðínato)
 * : חלש (khalásh), חלשה (khalásha)
 * : lemah
 * : lemah


 * : debole
 * : 약한 (yakhan)
 * : fraco, fraca
 * : débil
 * : svag
 * : zayıf, kırılgan, güçsüz
 * : zayıf, kırılgan, güçsüz

Anagrams

 * wake

Adjective
weak


 * 1) soft