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weakest

/ˈwiːkɪst/

weakest is the superlative form of weak.

Meaning of weak

Adjective

weak (comparative weaker, superlative weakest)

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

Phrases with weakest

Questions about weakest

What is weakest the superlative form of?
Weakest is the superlative form of weak.
How do you pronounce weakest?
Weakest is pronounced /ˈwiːkɪst/.

Words near weakest in the dictionary

  1. weaker
  2. weaker in the knees
  3. weaker sex
  4. weaker vessel
  5. weaker vessels
  6. weakest
  7. weakest in the knees
  8. weakest link
  9. weakest links
  10. weakfish
  11. weakfishes

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