Another word for weak
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Adjective
Not physically strong
- Delicate in constitution; frail or sickly.
- With little physical strength or force.
- With little strength of character.
- Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
- Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy.
- Lacking basis in fact.
- Not dependably strong or solid.
- Not physically or mentally healthy.
- Not true or logically valid; fallacious:
- Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak:
- Sickly; ill.
- Not firm or solid; weak or flimsy:
- Very small or negligible, as in importance, size, or amount:
- Lacking or appearing to lack substance or reality:
- Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
- Not strong or stable; shaky:
- Lacking firmness of will, character, or purpose; irresolute.
- Physically weak or delicate:
- Easily broken or destroyed; fragile:
- Not strong or substantial; slight:
- Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed.
- Lacking physical or emotional strength; delicate:
- Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:
- Light, thin, and insubstantial:
- Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
- Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
- Lacking bodily strength; weak:
- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Having little capacity to withstand pressure or strain:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
See also:So lacking in strength as to be barely audible
- Lacking bodily strength; weak:
- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Having little capacity to withstand pressure or strain:
- Done with little strength or vigor; feeble:
- So weak as to be difficult to perceive;
- Lacking clarity or distinctness:
See also:Lacking stability
- Tending to wobble; unsteady.
- Lacking confidence.
- Uncertain of the facts.
- Precarious; unstable; unreliable.
- Not firm, solid, or securely in place; unstable.
- Fluctuating; changeable:
- Not even or regular; wavering:
- Tending strongly to change:
- Not constant; fluctuating:
- Wavering or fickle:
- Tending to totter.
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- Dangerously lacking in security or stability:
- Subject to chance or unknown conditions:
- Based on uncertain, unwarranted, or unproved premises:
- Not sure or certain; doubtful:
- Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe:
- Not firm or fixed; unsteady:
- Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
- Not strong or stable; shaky:
- Lacking firmness of will, character, or purpose; irresolute.
Not capable of accomplishing anything
- Lacking strength or power; helpless and totally ineffectual.
- Lacking legal or other authority.
- Not producing the desired effect:
- Lacking forcefulness or effectiveness; inadequate or incompetent:
- Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power:
- Unable to perform adequately; incompetent:
- Not susceptible to action or treatment:
- Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.
- Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak.
- Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless:
- Incapable of sexual intercourse because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection.
- Unable to help oneself; powerless or incompetent.
- Lacking support or protection:
- Impossible to control; involuntary:
Lower than normal in strength or concentration due to admixture
- Filled with, consisting of, or soaked with water; wet or soggy:
- Containing too much water; diluted:
- Suggestive of water, as in being thin, pale, or liquid:
- Resembling water; watery.
- Diminished in force or effect:
- Pale in color; washed-out.
- Watery; diluted:
- Lacking strength or resolution:
- Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension:
- Not great in diameter or cross section; fine:
- Having little bodily flesh or fat; lean or slender.
- To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
- To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
- To decrease the value of (shares of stock) by increasing the total number of shares.
See also:Not plausible or believable
- Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
- Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy.
- Lacking basis in fact.
- Not convincing:
- Inconceivable:
- Not to be believed; incredible:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
- Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension:
- Not great in diameter or cross section; fine:
- Having little bodily flesh or fat; lean or slender.
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- So implausible as to elicit disbelief; unbelievable:
- Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
- Impossible to comprehend or grasp fully:
- So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable:
- Unlikely to take place or be true.
- Difficult to believe; not plausible.
- Light, thin, and insubstantial:
- Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
- Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
See also:
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Another word for weak
Modifier
Lacking physical strength; said of persons
- Relating to or having diminished cognitive function, as when memory is impaired, because of old age.
- Being a disease or condition whose cause is primarily advanced age:
- At the end of an erosion cycle:
- Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
- Weak in body or mind, especially from old age or disease.
- Not strong or stable; shaky:
- Lacking firmness of will, character, or purpose; irresolute.
- Prone to sickness.
- Of, caused by, or associated with sickness:
- Conducive to sickness:
- Physically weak or delicate:
- Easily broken or destroyed; fragile:
- Not strong or substantial; slight:
- Lacking bodily strength; weak:
- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Having little capacity to withstand pressure or strain:
- Having or showing qualities or characteristics more often associated with females than males; unmanly:
- Showing impairment of energy or strength; enfeebled.
- Lacking firmness; hanging limply:
- Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness:
- Soft and hanging loosely or in folds:
- Having a body characterized by fleshiness or softness, as from being somewhat overweight:
- Lacking force, control, or effectiveness:
- Of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak:
- Sickly; ill.
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
Lacking physical strength; said of things
- Likely to topple because of an uneven distribution of weight, with the majority being at the top.
- Overcapitalized.
- Having a disproportionately large number of administrators.
- Tending to totter.
- Tending to wobble; unsteady.
- Being in a state of putrefaction or decay; decomposed.
- Having a foul odor resulting from or suggestive of decay; putrid.
- Made weak or unsound by rot:
- So poorly constructed or kept up that disintegration is likely; rickety:
- Not firm, solid, or securely in place; unstable.
- Fluctuating; changeable:
- Not even or regular; wavering:
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry:
- Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable:
- Made of low-quality materials; cheap or shoddy.
- Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety:
- Likely to break or fall apart; shaky.
- Feeble with age; infirm.
- Of, having, or resembling rickets.
- built poorly, of cheap materials
- Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
- Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy.
- Lacking basis in fact.
- Likely to break, snap, or crack, as when subjected to pressure:
- Easily damaged or disrupted; fragile:
- Difficult to deal with; snappish:
- Suitable as a temporary or expedient substitute:
- A temporary or expedient substitute for something else:
- Light, thin, and insubstantial:
- Lacking solidity or strength; easily damaged:
- Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
Lacking mental firmness or character
- filled with fright; terrified
- wavering or tending to waver in motion, opinion, etc.
- Inclined or tending to hesitate.
- A despicable coward; a wretch.
- Despicable and cowardly.
- Irresolute or indecisive:
- Lacking in purpose; weak or ineffective:
- Thin and watery, as tea or soup.
- Affected with palsy.
- Trembling or shaking.
- Having a string or strings loosened or removed.
- Emotionally upset.
- Lacking courage or willpower.
- Having no spines.
- Lacking a spinal column; invertebrate.
- Of or relating to the nerves or nervous system:
- Stemming from or affecting the nerves or nervous system:
- Easily agitated or distressed; high-strung or jumpy.
- Unsure of how to act or proceed; undecided.
- Lacking in resolution; indecisive.
- cowardly; timid; shy
- Lacking strength or energy; spiritless; weak.
- Lacking courage; cowardly.
- Calm and controlled in trying circumstances; cool.
- Having or exhibiting a lack of judgment or conviction.
- Foolish; silly.
- Of less than normal intellect. Not in scientific use.
Antonyms:Lacking in volume
- A stake or pointed stick; a picket.
- A fence enclosing an area.
- The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish:
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt:
- That has been interrupted, suppressed etc
- simple past tense and past participle of stifle
- Electromagnetic radiation that is visible, perceivable by the normal human eye as colors between red and violet, having frequencies between 400 terahertz and 790 terahertz and wavelengths between 750 nanometers and 380 nanometers.
- Electromagnetic radiation of any frequency or wavelength.
- The sensation of perceiving light; brightness:
- Impossible to hear:
- Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
- simple past tense and past participle of bate
- simple past tense and past participle of whisper
- simple past tense and past participle of muffle
- Lacking in brightness:
- Emitting only a small amount of light; faint:
- Lacking luster; dull or subdued:
- Done with little strength or vigor; feeble:
- So weak as to be difficult to perceive;
- Lacking clarity or distinctness:
- Lacking bodily strength; weak:
- Having little intensity or strength; faint:
- Having little capacity to withstand pressure or strain:
- Not clearly or sharply delineated:
- Faint; dim:
- Hazy; vague:
- Yielding readily to pressure or weight:
- Easily molded, cut, or worked:
- Not tense and therefore capable of absorbing the impact of a ball or puck and of catching, receiving, or controlling it:
- Having little relative height; not high or tall:
- Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces:
- Near to the ground or the horizon:
- Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension:
- Not great in diameter or cross section; fine:
- Having little bodily flesh or fat; lean or slender.
Lacking in military power
- Having made no preparations.
- Not equipped to meet a contingency.
- Impromptu:
- Not defended or not able to be defended.
- Simple past tense and past participle of expose.
- Susceptible to physical harm or damage:
- Susceptible to emotional injury, especially in being easily hurt:
- Susceptible to attack:
- Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.
- Lacking order, unity, or a system; disorganized.
- Having no organic qualities; inorganic.
- Not represented by a labor union.
- Confined or restricted within certain limits:
- Not attaining the highest goals or achievement:
- Having only mediocre talent or range of ability:
- Poorly or inadequately equipped.
- Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak.
- Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless:
- Incapable of sexual intercourse because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection.
- Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.
- Not producing an intended effect; ineffectual:
- Inadequate; incompetent:
- Not producing the desired effect:
- Lacking forcefulness or effectiveness; inadequate or incompetent:
- Lacking in importance or worth.
- Very small or inadequate in amount; negligible:
- Marked by meanness or lack of generosity; contemptible:
- Being below average in size:
- Being below average in quantity or extent:
- Limited in importance or significance; trivial:
Lacking in capacity or experience
- Not attempted, tested, or proved.
- Not tried in court.
- Not complete.
- Not caught in bounds or intercepted:
- A grade indicating that the requirements for an academic course or assignment have not been met.
- Not known or established; questionable:
- Not determined; undecided:
- Not having sure knowledge:
- Trembling or quivering; tremulous:
- Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction:
- Not to be depended on; precarious:
- Yielding readily to pressure or weight:
- Easily molded, cut, or worked:
- Not tense and therefore capable of absorbing the impact of a ball or puck and of catching, receiving, or controlling it:
- Physically or mentally disabled:
- Intended for people who have a disability:
- People who have a disability considered as a group. Often used with the.
- Not firm, solid, or securely in place; unstable.
- Fluctuating; changeable:
- Not even or regular; wavering:
- Not fully grown or developed:
- Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity:
- An immature animal; a juvenile.
- Not sure or certain; doubtful:
- Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe:
- Not firm or fixed; unsteady:
- Directed or facing toward the back or rear.
- Done or arranged in a manner or order that is opposite to previous occurrence or normal use.
- Unwilling to act; reluctant; shy.
- Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.
- Newly begun or formed; not advanced:
- Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life:
- Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.
- New to one's experience; not encountered before:
- Unusual or different:
- Recently made, produced, or harvested; not stale or spoiled:
- The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
- Something green in color.
- The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.
- Uncooked:
- Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined:
- Not finished, covered, or coated:
- Lacking confidence.
- Uncertain of the facts.
- Precarious; unstable; unreliable.
Antonyms:
Synonym Study
- Decrepit implies a being broken down, worn out, or decayed, as by old age or long use a decrepit old pensioner, a decrepit sofa
- Infirm suggests a loss of strength or soundness, as through illness or age his infirm old grandfather
- Frail suggests an inherent or constitutional delicacy or weakness, so as to be easily broken or shattered a frail body, conscience, etc.
- Feeble suggests a pitiable weakness or ineffectiveness a feeble old man, a feeble joke
- Weak , the broadest in application of these words, basically implies a lack or inferiority of physical, mental, or moral strength a weak muscle, mind, character, foundation, excuse, etc.
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