weak
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
Adjective 4 meanings
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
“The child was too weak to move the boulder.”
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”
Etymology
From Middle English waik, wayk, wayke, weik, weyk, borrowed from Old Norse veikr (“weak”), from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz (“weak, yielded, pliant, bendsome”), from *wīkwaną (“to cease, fold, yield; to retreat”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, turn, wind”), from *weh₁y- (“to plait, twist, weave, wind; to cover, enclose, wrap”).
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WEAK at a glance
WEAK has 4 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (W 4 + E 1 + A 1 + K 5) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,183 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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