1. Wanting in physical strength
   "a weak pillar"
    
2. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
   "a weak old woman";
   - decrepit, debile [archaic], feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weakly
    
3. Deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity, brightness or loudness etc
   "weak colours"; "a weak pulse";
   - faint
    
4. Likely to fail under stress or pressure
   "the weak link in the chain"
    
5. Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
   "I'm only a weak human";
   - fallible, frail, imperfect
    
6. Deficient or lacking in some skill
   "he's weak in spelling"
    
7. Deficient in intelligence or mental power
   "a weak mind"
    
8. Not having authority, political strength, or governing power
   "a weak president"
    
9. Tending downward in price
   "a weak market for oil stocks"
    
10. Overly diluted; thin and insipid
    "weak tea";
    - watery, washy
     
11. (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
    "a weak stress on the second syllable";
    - unaccented, light
     
12. (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
    "The verb 'walk' is weak, forming its past tense as 'walked'"
     
13. Lacking in vibrancy, colour, force, or decisiveness
    "The politician gave a weak answer to the question";
    - wishy-washy [informal], indecisive

Sounds like: ways, w, wea

Derived forms: weakest, weaker

See also: adynamic [archaic], anaemic [Brit, Cdn], anemic [N. Amer], asthenic, daft [Brit, informal], debilitated, delicate, dilute, diluted, down, dumb, enervated, faint, fallible, feeble, flimsy, foolish, frail, human, imbecile, imbecilic, insubstantial, jerry-built, lame, limp, pale, pallid, perceptible, powerless, puny, regular, sick, strength, stupid, tender, unskilled, unstressed, untoughened, vulnerable, wan, weakened, wilted, wussy [informal]

Antonym: strong

Encyclopedia: Weak