(v. i.) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
(v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.
(v. i.) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.
(v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.
(v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.
(v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
(v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.
(v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.
(v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.
(v. i.) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.
(v. i.) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
(v. i.) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
(v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.
(v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.
(v. i.) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.
(v. i.) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.
(v. i.) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
(v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.
(v. i.) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.
(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).
(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).
(a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(3) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(4) The strengths and weaknesses of each technique are described in this article.
(5) In group V, five cases of Taenia saginata parasitosis were studied showing a weak positive reading.
(6) Although the longest period required for resolving weakness was three days, the MRI, the CT and the electroencephalogram revealed no significant abnormality.
(7) Her muscle weakness and hyperCKemia markedly improved by corticosteroid therapy, suggesting that the diagnosis was compatible with polymyositis (PM).
(8) It was concluded that Ta acts as a weak zeitgeber in laboratory rats and has greater effects on males compared to females.
(9) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(10) Sensory loss, motor weakness, paraesthesia and a new pain were found as complications in 12, 7, 4 and 6 patients, respectively.
(11) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(12) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(13) The weakness was treated by intensive physical rehabilitation with complete and sustained recovery in all cases.
(14) It also showed weak inhibition of the solid type of Ehrlich carcinoma and prolonged the survival period of mice inoculated with L-1210 cells.
(15) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.
(16) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
(17) DL 071 IT, a new potent non-selective beta-adrenergic blocking drug with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity and weak membrane stabilizing activity, was evaluated alone and in comparison with oxprenolol, in six volunteers, at rest and during an exercise test.
(18) A variety of weak acids at and below their pK(a) are potent inhibitors of transport in Penicillium chrysogenum.
(19) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
(20) The radioprotective action in E. coli ATCC 9637 of ascorbate added to media containing the weak sensitizer, tetracycline (effect described by Pittillo and Lucas (1967)), was found to be dependent on the presence of metal catalysts of the autoxidation of ascorbate.
Weedy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
(superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
(superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
(a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
Example Sentences:
(1) I set off down the still familiar regular path between the regularly spaced trees, finding weedy elder bushes bearing leaves.
(2) This locus is, however, highly polymorphic in weedy C. berlandieri populations of western North America.
(3) It's so easy, what with advergames , weedy regulation, ferocious lobbyists, monopolies, "regulatory capture", and with sugar and chips being so delicious, comforting, cheap, and all for sale seconds from a school gate near you.
(4) It's full of energy but perhaps could have done without the addition of a weedy brass section.
(5) Ed Miliband claimed that he and David were simply too weedy to fight.
(6) The government claims that tolls will only be charged by roads' new owners for new capacity, but that sounds distinctly like one of those weedy assurances given by politicians that, once yesterday's lunacy has become today's accepted practice, is swiftly forgotten (to these ears, it has a similar ring to all those early New Labour claims about strict limits on private involvement in the NHS, or what the likes of Nick Clegg have said about profit-making schools).
(7) You wait for the punchline on Nizlopi's JCB Song before realising, to your horror, that the weedy singing and naive lyric is not a Hoxton parody of outsider art but is meant to signify sincerity.
(8) Estate agents suggest sellers should try to: • Keep up external appearances: "To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell.
(9) There are no nasty oil-marks on the beach, nor weedy sewage outfalls.
(10) As a child he was weedy and introspective, a condition he cured by taking up boxing and rowing at Westminster School.
(11) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
(12) Facing a swaggering Conservative leadership that increasingly reveals a nasty bullying streak, Labour is tending to give off the anxious vibes of the weedy kid in the playground, eyes down, hands in its pockets, too ready for flight instead of fight.
(13) Livers from 4,501 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) collected from a weedy habitat in northeastern California during 48 consecutive monthly samplings were examined microscopically for Taenia taeniaeformis larva.
(14) I'm not sure you'd want me to fight a pack of Daily Mail journalists to defend your honour, because I'm weedy and no good at sport, but I do a good line in creative swearing at sexist scumbags.
(15) I see Labour MPs and shadow ministers hold their heads in their hands, asking why strong popular policies emerge watered down, weedy and weak.
(16) The relatively weedy intellectual decided to attend the local gym.
(17) Its followup dramatises a school reunion, which gives weedy Brian and childhood sweetheart Jessica one last chance to get together.
(18) They stay home with their colonic irrigationists, and their weedy macrobiotic diets and their personal trainers and their status anxiety.
(19) Isozymes of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) in leaf tissue of the cultivated chenopods (Chenopodium quinoa and C. nuttalliae) and their sympatric weedy relatives (C. hircinum and C. berlandieri) can be electrophoretically resolved into a sum total of five anodally migrating bands.