weak | (adjective) wanting in physical strength | - |
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(adjective) overly diluted; thin and insipid | Synonyms: washy, watery |
(adjective) tending downward in price | - |
(adjective) likely to fail under stress or pressure | - |
(adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly |
(adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect |
(adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: faint |
(adjective) not having authority, political strength, or governing power | - |
(adjective) (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
(adjective) deficient in intelligence or mental power | - |
(adjective) deficient or lacking in some skill | - |
(adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, unaccented |
weaken | (verb) become weaker | - |
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(verb) lessen the strength of | - |
(verb) reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of | Synonyms: de-escalate, step down |
(verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, soften |
(verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine |
weakened | (adjective) damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value | Synonyms: hurt |
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(adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, faded |
(adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: cut, thinned |
(adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, lessened, vitiated |
(adjective) made weak or weaker | - |
weakener | (noun) that which weakens or causes a loss of strength | - |
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weakening | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling |
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(adjective) moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker | - |
(noun) the act of reducing the strength of something | - |
(noun) becoming weaker | - |
weakfish | (noun) food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | Synonyms: Cynoscion regalis |
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(noun) lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
weakling | (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: doormat, wuss |
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weakly | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak |
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(adverb) in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree | - |
weakness | (noun) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain | - |
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(noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, impuissance |
(noun) a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you | - |
(noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: failing |
(noun) the condition of being financially weak | - |