Weak

wēk, adj. soft: wanting strength and vigour: not able to sustain a great weight: wanting health: easily overcome: feeble of mind: wanting moral or mental force: frail: unsteady: slight or incomplete: having little of the chief ingredient: impre ible: inconclusive: ( Shak. ) inconsiderable: ( gram. ) of a verb inflected by regular syllabic addition instead of by change of the main vowel: tending downward in price.— adj. Weak′-built ( Shak. ), ill-founded.— v.t. Weak′en , to make weak: to reduce in strength or spirit.— v.i. to grow weak or weaker.— n. Weak′ener , one who or that which weakens.— adjs. Weak′-eyed , having weak eyes or sight; Weak′-hand′ed , powerle ; Weak′-head′ed , having a feeble intellect; Weak′-heart′ed ( Shak. ), of weak or feeble heart or spirit; Weak′-hinged , ill-balanced; Weak′-kneed , having weak knees: weak in will.— n. Weak′ling , a weak or feeble creature.— adv. Weak′ly .— adj. Weak′-mind′ed , of feeble powers of mind.— ns. Weak′-mind′edne ; Weak′ne .— adjs. Weak′-sight′ed , having feeble eyesight; Weak′-spir′ited , bearing wrong tamely, cowardly.— Weaker sex , women; Weaker ve el (see Ve el ).— Weak side , point , that side or point in which a person is most easily influenced or most liable to temptation. [A.S. wác , pliant— wican , to yield; Dut. week , Ice. veikr , Ger. weich .]