Synonyms: weak
Definition: deficient in intelligence or mental power
Usage: a weak mind
Similar words: stupid
Definition: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
Definition: overly diluted; thin and insipid
Usage: washy coffee; watery milk; weak tea
Similar words: dilute, diluted
Definition: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity
Usage: diluted alcohol; a dilute solution; dilute acetic acid
Synonyms: weak
Definition: likely to fail under stress or pressure
Usage: the weak link in the chain
Similar words: fallible
Definition: likely to fail or make errors
Usage: everyone is fallible to some degree
Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect, weak
Definition: wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
Usage: I'm only a fallible human; frail humanity
Similar words: human
Definition: having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings
Usage: human beings; the human body; human kindness; human frailty
Definition: deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
Usage: a faint outline; the wan sun cast faint shadows; the faint light of a distant candle; weak colors; a faint hissing sound; a faint aroma; a weak pulse
Similar words: perceptible
Definition: capable of being perceived by the mind or senses
Usage: a perceptible limp; easily perceptible sounds; perceptible changes in behavior
Synonyms: weak
Definition: not having authority, political strength, or governing power
Usage: a weak president
Similar words: powerless
Definition: lacking power
Synonyms: weak
Definition: (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
Similar words: regular
Definition: in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
Usage: his regular calls on his customers; regular meals; regular duties
Synonyms: feeble, weak, weakly, sapless, rickety, infirm, debile, decrepit
Definition: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
Usage: a feeble old woman; her body looked sapless
Synonyms: weak
Definition: deficient or lacking in some skill
Usage: he's weak in spelling
Similar words: unskilled
Definition: not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
Usage: unskilled in the art of rhetoric; an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber; unskilled labor; workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities; unskilled workmanship
Synonyms: weak, light, unaccented
Definition: (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
Usage: a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable; a weak stress on the second syllable
Similar words: unstressed
Definition: not bearing a stress or accent
Usage: short vowels are unstressed
Synonyms: weak
Definition: wanting in physical strength
Usage: a weak pillar
Similar words: anaemic, anemic
Definition: lacking vigor or energy
Usage: an anemic attempt to hit the baseball
Similar words: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated
Definition: lacking strength or vigor
Definition: lacking strength or vigor
Usage: damning with faint praise; faint resistance; feeble efforts; a feeble voice
Definition: pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
Usage: a feeble excuse; a lame argument
Similar words: flimsy
Definition: lacking solidity or strength
Usage: a flimsy table; flimsy construction
Similar words: jerry-built, shoddy
Definition: of inferior workmanship and materials
Usage: mean little jerry-built houses
Similar words: spineless, wishy-washy, gutless, namby-pamby
Definition: weak in willpower, courage or vitality
Similar words: pale, pallid, wan, sick
Definition: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
Usage: the pale light of a half moon; a pale sun; the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street; a pallid sky; the pale (or wan) stars; the wan light of dawn
Similar words: puny
Definition: inferior in strength or significance
Usage: a puny physique; puny excuses
Similar words: vulnerable
Definition: capable of being wounded or hurt
Usage: vulnerable parts of the body
Similar words: weakened
Definition: made weak or weaker
Synonyms: weak
Definition: tending downward in price
Usage: a weak market for oil stocks
Similar words: down
Definition: being or moving lower in position or less in some value
Usage: lay face down; the moon is down; our team is down by a run; down by a pawn; the stock market is down today