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adjective

• Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.

  Example: The child was too weak to move the boulder.

• Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.

  Example: a weak timber; a weak rope

• Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.

  Example: weak resolutions; weak virtue

• Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.

  Example: We were served stale bread and weak tea.

• (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:

• That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.

  Example: a weak acid;  a weak base

• One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.

• Bad or uncool.

  Example: This place is weak.

• Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)

• Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

• Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.

  Example: The prosecution advanced a weak case.

• Lacking in vigour or expression.

  Example: a weak sentence; a weak style

• Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

• Tending towards lower prices.

  Example: a weak market; wheat is weak at present

• Lacking contrast.

  Example: a weak negative