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1
lacking bodily strength
- the little boy was simply too weak to lift the box
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2
lacking strength of will or character
- I was too weak to resist the free doughnuts in the office break room
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- characterless,
- effete,
- frail,
- invertebrate,
- limp-wristed,
- milk-and-water,
- namby-pamby,
- nerveless,
- soft,
- spineless,
- weakened,
- weak-kneed,
- weakling,
- wet
- [British],
- wimpish,
- wimpy,
- wishy-washy
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3
not containing very much of some important element
- the coffee came out too weak because I didn't use enough ground beans
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4
not using or following good reasoning
- your argument is weak
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- eristic
- (also eristical),
- misleading,
- sophistic
- (or sophistical),
- specious
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5
unable to act or achieve one's purpose
- the vice president is a relatively weak official
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- authoritarian,
- autocratic
- (also autocratical),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- magisterial,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
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The first known use of weak was in the 13th century
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