Word Meanings - WEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market. Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit 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;

Additional info about word: WEAK

Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market. Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit 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 . Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 . Note: Weak is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, weak-eyed, weak-handed, weak-hearted, weak-minded, weak-spirited, and the like. Weak conjugation , the conjugation of weak verbs; -- called also new, or regular, conjugation, and distinguished from the old, or irregular, conjugation. -- Weak declension , the declension of weak nouns; also, one of the declensions of adjectives. -- Weak side, the side or aspect of a person's character or disposition by which he is most easily affected or influenced; weakness; infirmity. -- Weak sore or ulcer , a sore covered with pale, flabby, sluggish granulations. (more info) veikr; akin to Sw. vek, Dan. veg soft, flexible, pliant, AS. wac weak, soft, pliant, D. week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen in Icel. vikja to turn, veer, recede, AS. wican to yield, give way, G. weichen, OHG. wihhan, akin to Skr. vij, and probably to E. 1. Wanting physical strength. Specifically: -- Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. Shak. Weak with hunger, mad with love. Dryden. Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope. Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship. Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant. Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress. Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint. A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish. Ascham. 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. Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army. 2. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically: - Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate. To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper. Beattie. Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods. Waterland. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish. If evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse. Milton. Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering. Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. Rom. xiv. 1. Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue. Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails. Addison. Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case. "Convinced of his weak arguing." Milton. A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in. Hooker. Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble. "Weak prayers." Shak. 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. I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WEAK)

• Childish
• Weak
• silly
• puerile
• infantine
• imbecile
• foolish
• trifling
• paltry
• trivial
• Decrepit
• Infirm
• weak
• crippled
• superannuated
• effete
• broken-down
• enfeebled
• tottering
• aged
• Effeminate
• Feminine
• delicate
• womanly
• womanish
• timorous
• feeble
• mild mannered
• soft
• unmanly
• enervated
• emasculated
• Empty
• Vacant
• void
• clear
• unencumbered
• unobstructed
• unoccupied
• waste
• uninhabited
• unfrequented
• devoid
• vacuous
• destitute
• unulled
• unfurnished
• untenanted
• evacuated
• deficient
• Billy
• idle
• senseless
• Facile
• Docile
• tractable
• manageable
• indulgent
• irresolute
• easy
• affable
• flexible
• characterless
• pliable

Related words: (words related to WEAK)

• EMASCULATE
  1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. 2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• BILLY GOAT
  A male goat.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• FEMININE
  1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. Macaulay. 2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex;
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• SUPERANNUATION
  The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.