weak

weak is a 4-letter English word with 35 senses as intransitive verb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wanting physical strength. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 35 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Wanting physical strength.
2. intransitive verb. Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
3. intransitive verb. Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.
4. intransitive verb. Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.
5. intransitive verb. Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.
6. intransitive verb. Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.
7. intransitive verb. Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
8. intransitive verb. Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.
9. intransitive verb. Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.
10. intransitive verb. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.
11. intransitive verb. Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.
12. intransitive verb. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
13. intransitive verb. Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
14. intransitive verb. Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.
15. intransitive verb. Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.
16. intransitive verb. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.
17. intransitive verb. Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.
18. intransitive verb. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
19. intransitive verb. Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.
20. intransitive verb. Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.
21. intransitive verb. Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).
22. intransitive verb. Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).
23. adjective. To make or become weak; to weaken.
24. adjective. deficient in intelligence or mental power

    "a weak mind"

25. adjective. overly diluted; thin and insipid

    "washy coffee"

    "watery milk"

    Synonyms: washy, watery

26. adjective. likely to fail under stress or pressure

    "the weak link in the chain"

27. adjective. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings

    "I'm only a fallible human"

    "frail humanity"

    Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect

28. adjective. deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc

    "a faint outline"

    "the wan sun cast faint shadows"

    Synonyms: faint

29. adjective. not having authority, political strength, or governing power

    "a weak president"

30. adjective. (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
31. adjective. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

    "a feeble old woman"

    "her body looked sapless"

    Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly

32. adjective. deficient or lacking in some skill

    "he's weak in spelling"

33. adjective. (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress

    "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"

    "a weak stress on the second syllable"

    Synonyms: light, unaccented

34. adjective. wanting in physical strength

    "a weak pillar"

35. adjective. tending downward in price

    "a weak market for oil stocks"

Synonyms

washy, watery, fallible, frail, imperfect, faint, debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly, light, unaccented

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in weak:

wake, weka

Common word forms

weaken, weaker, weakly, weakest, weakness

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