weak
Signification (English)
- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
- Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
- Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
- Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
- Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
- Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
- Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
- That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
- One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
- (slang) Bad or uncool.
- Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
- Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
- Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
- Lacking in vigour or expression.
- Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
- Tending towards lower prices.
- Lacking contrast.
Concepts
sans force
un peu moins que
faible constitution
Synonyms
not strong
weak person
bedrid
be loose
be weak
not firm
gastrasthenia
not good
permanent condition
small and weak
effete
be feeble
become feeble
sickly person
be frail
tiny bit
easily damaged
not tight
not bright
not powerful
be slow
not sharp
very sick
delicate stomach
not durable
having no strength
pulled-down
easily broken
easily hurt
feel faint
feel weak
grow tired
nervous exhaustion
very poor
completely exhausted
long and thin
little less than
poorly-built
dreadfully weary
terribly frustrated
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/wiːk/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English weyk, wayk, weik, waik, from Old Norse veikr (“weak”), from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz (“weak, yielded, pliant, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, wind”). Cognate with Old English wāc (“weak, bendsome”), Saterland Frisian wook (“soft, gentle, tender”), West Frisian weak (“soft”), Dutch week (“soft, weak”), German weich (“weak, soft”), Norwegian veik (“weak”), Swedish vek (“weak, pliant”), Icelandic veikur (“bendsome, weak”). Related to Old English wīcan (“to yield”). Doublet of week and wick.
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