weak

Oznaczający

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.

Częstotliwość

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/wiːk/

Etymologia

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.