weak
/wi(ː)k/ adjective A2- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. · The child was too weak to move the boulder.· They easily guessed his weak computer password.
- Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. · a weak timber; a weak rope
- Limp, soft.
- Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. · weak resolutions; weak virtue
- Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
- Dilute, lacking in taste or potency. · We were served stale bread and weak tea.
- Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense marked by /-d-/, /-t-/, or /-ð-/. · The verb to run is strong, not weak, because the past tense is ran.
- Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
Comparative weaker · Superlative weakest
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The Hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.” And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.
Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.
It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: “I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds.” They replied, “You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we on the contrary bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken, and escape.”
Seeing his own shadow reflected in the water, he greatly admired the size and variety of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such slender and weak feet.
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