weake

Adjective

weak (comparative weaker, superlative weakest)

1. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
   • The child was too weak to move the boulder.

   Synonyms:

   feeble, frail, powerless, vincible, assailable, vulnerable

2. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
   • a weak timber; a weak rope
3. Limp, soft.
4. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
   • weak resolutions; weak virtue
5. (often) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
   • 'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch
     You know that I'm weak for you
     Can't help myself
     I love you and nobody else2065 April 23, “I Can't Help Myself”, in Four Tops Second Album, performed by The Four Tops
6. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
   • That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   dilute, watery

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