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weak

adjective

1 they are too weak to move:

frail, feeble, puny, fragile, delicate, weakly;

infirm, sick, sickly, shaky, debilitated, incapacitated, ailing, indisposed, decrepit, enervated, tired, fatigued, exhausted, spent, worn out;

informal weedy.

▷antonyms strong.

2 bats have very weak eyes:

inadequate, poor, feeble;

defective, faulty, flawed, deficient, imperfect, substandard, lacking, wanting.

▷antonyms strong, powerful, keen.

3 she made some weak excuse to break the appointment:

unconvincing, untenable, tenuous, implausible, unsatisfactory, slight, poor, inadequate, thin, transparent;

unsound, feeble, flimsy, lame, hollow;

informal pathetic.

▷antonyms convincing.

4 I was too weak to be a rebel:

irresolute, spineless, craven, cowardly, pusillanimous, timorous, timid, indecisive, ineffectual, useless, inept, effete, meek, tame, powerless, ineffective, impotent, namby-pamby, soft, lily-livered, faint-hearted;

informal yellow, weak-kneed, gutless, yellow-bellied, chicken-hearted, chicken.

▷antonyms strong, resolute.

5 he had only a weak light to work by:

dim, pale, wan, faint, dull, feeble, muted.

▷antonyms strong, bright.

6 ‘you did this to her,’ he said in a weak voice | a weak signal:

indistinct, muffled, stifled, muted, hushed, faint, low, scarcely audible.

▷antonyms strong, loud.

7 they drank weak coffee:

watery, diluted, dilute, watered down, thinned down, thin, adulterated, tasteless, flavourless, bland, insipid, mild;

informal wishy-washy.

▷antonyms strong, powerful.

8 a weak smile:

unenthusiastic, feeble, half-hearted, limp.

□ weak at the knees

she has accepted a challenge that would make the bravest man go weak at the knees:

faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy, shaky;

weak-kneed, wobbly, quivery, unsteady, groggy, muzzy;

informal trembly, all of a tremble, all of a quiver, with rubbery legs, woozy;

rare vertiginous.

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weak Oxford Dictionary of English