weak
adjective
[ wiːk ]
• lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; having little physical strength or energy.
• "she was recovering from flu, and was very weak"
Similar:
frail,
feeble,
puny,
fragile,
delicate,
weakly,
infirm,
sick,
sickly,
shaky,
debilitated,
incapacitated,
ailing,
indisposed,
decrepit,
enervated,
tired,
fatigued,
exhausted,
spent,
worn out,
weedy,
• liable to break or give way under pressure; easily damaged.
• "the salamander's tail may be broken off at a weak spot near the base"
• lacking intensity or brightness.
• "a weak light from a single street lamp"
• denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by addition of a suffix (in English, typically -ed ).
• relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts only at distances less than about 10−15 cm, is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions, and conserves neither strangeness, parity, nor isospin.
Origin:
Old English wāc ‘pliant’, ‘of little worth’, ‘not steadfast’, reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse veikr, from a Germanic base meaning ‘yield, give way’.
