weak

adj

1. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.

   “The child was too weak to move the boulder.”

   “They easily guessed his weak computer password.”

   “a poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man”

   “weak with hunger, mad with love”

   “The prospects for the global economy as outlined by the IMF are the third weakest since 2001, behind only the 2008 financial crisis and the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Global growth has fallen below 2% just five times since 1970.”

2. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.

   “a weak timber; a weak rope”

3. Limp, soft.
4. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.

   “weak resolutions; weak virtue”

   “Guard thy heart / On this weak side, where most our nature fails.”

5. (often)Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.

   “'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch You know that I'm weak for you Can't help myself I love you and nobody else”

   “It’s really good to hear your voice Sayin' my name, it sounds so sweet Comin' from the lips of an angel Hearin' those words, it makes me weak”

6. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.

   “That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.”

   “We were served stale bread and weak tea.”

7. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:

   “The verb to walk is weak because it has a past tense of walked and all forms are inflected by adding the typical suffix (ie is regular) to the stem walk- (ie has no vowel changes).”

   “The verb to run is strong, not weak, because the past tense is ran.”

   “The verb to be is neither weak nor strong, instead it is highly irregular in all inflections; its third person present tense is is instead of *bes (which can even be seen in this very sentence) and its past tense is was or were instead of *bed or *beed or anything similar, just to name a few of its inflections.”

8. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
9. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
10. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:

    “In some Semitic languages such as Akkadian, some or all gutturals are weak and often disappear, but in others such as Arabic and Ugaritic, they are strong and never disappear.”

    “The reflexes of the Proto-Semitic verb *mawut- (“to die”) are often weak due to the presence of w, for example: Arabic مَاتَ (māta), Hebrew מֵת (mēṯ), and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎚 (mt /⁠māta⁠/).”

11. Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:

    “The Finnish verb kääntää (“to translate”) inflects to the singular imperative as käännä, showing the weak gradation nt > nn because it historically ended in a consonant which closed the syllable.”

12. That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.

    “a weak acid”

    “a weak base”

    “When we say that an acid is weak, we refer only to its degree of dissociation, not to its degree of corrosiveness; but it is true that those two traits often correlate, though.”

13. One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
14. (slang)Bad or uncool.

    “This place is weak.”

15. Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
16. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

    “If evil thence ensue, / She first his weak indulgence will accuse.”

17. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.

    “The prosecution advanced a weak case.”

    “convinced of his weak arguing”

    “There are two fundamental theorems of calculus. Both relate differentiation to integration. In most calculus courses, the Second Fundamental Theorem is usually proved first and then used to prove the First Fundamental Theorem. Unfortunately, this results in a First Fundamental Theorem that is weaker than it could be.”

18. Lacking in vigour or expression.

    “a weak sentence; a weak style”

    “It could turn out that An Unexpected Journey is the weakest of this trilogy, the necessary preamble before less-stultifying action and more engaging character development ensue. But, to paraphrase the sweet and stout-hearted Bilbo himself, this adventure won’t just make you late for dinner. It might make you miss breakfast and lunch, too. Only the most dedicated Middle-earthers will find that the hunger pangs are worth it.”

19. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

    “Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.”

20. Tending towards lower prices.

    “a weak market; wheat is weak at present”

21. Lacking contrast.

    “a weak negative”