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weakling

/ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/

weakling noun: a person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.

Noun

weakling (plural weaklings)

  1. A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.
    • “Mon Dieu!” he soliloquized, “but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess—money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal bound down by silly customs that make them slaves to their...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17
    Synonyms:
    twerk, twerp
  2. (figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
    • c.1551, Hugh Latimer, a sermon in Lincolnshire
      We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
    • Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.2025 July 17, Oliver Holmes, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2025

Adjective

weakling

  1. weak, either physically, morally or mentally

weakling meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

weakling in Marathi

a weakling; person of weak constitution
दुर्बळ durbaḷ

weakling in Urdu

کمزور, ناتواں, ضعیف

weakling in Malayalam

ക്ഷീണിതൻ, ബലംകുറഞ്ഞ

weakling in Kannada

weakling
ಹಿಜಡ hijaḍa
More languagesFewer languages
weakling in Sanskrit
दुर्बल durbala

Examples of weakling in a sentence

  • He contemplated this for a moment, then flobbed at me and kicked the weakling slightly harder.
  • He was a weakling, a lewdster: with him the line of kings started from IkshWaku became extinct.
  • All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.

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Synonyms of weakling

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of weakling

Forms of weakling

pluralweaklings

Origin of weakling

From weak + -ling.

Questions about weakling

What does weakling mean?
Weakling means a person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.
What is weakling in Marathi?
Weakling in Marathi is दुर्बळ (durbaḷ). See Weakling meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is weakling?
Weakling can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce weakling?
Weakling is pronounced /ˈwiːkˈlɪŋɡ/.
What is the plural of weakling?
The plural of weakling is weaklings.

Words near weakling in the dictionary

  1. Weakley County
  2. Weakleys
  3. weaklier
  4. weakliest
  5. weakliness
  6. weakling
  7. weaklings
  8. weaklink
  9. weaklinks
  10. weakly
  11. weakly cardinal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weakling (page history and authors); दुर्बळ (Marathi) (page history and authors); weakling (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weakling (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಹಿಜಡ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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