weakest
/ˈwiːkɪst/
weakest is the superlative form of weak.
Meaning of weak
Adjective
weak (comparative weaker, superlative weakest)
- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- The child was too weak to move the boulder.
- Synonyms:
- feeble, frail, powerless, vincible, assailable, vulnerable
- 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
- 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
- 'Cause sugar pie, honey bunch
- 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
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/.
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