weak

Adjective

• deficient in intelligence or mental power
  • a weak mind
    

• likely to fail under stress or pressure
  • the weak link in the chain
    

• deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
  • a faint outline
    
  • the wan sun cast faint shadows
    
  • the faint light of a distant candle
    
  • weak colors
    
  • a faint hissing sound
    
  • a faint aroma
    
  • a weak pulse
    

• not having authority, political strength, or governing power
  • a weak president
    

• (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection

• lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
  • a feeble old woman
    
  • her body looked sapless
    

• deficient or lacking in some skill
  • he's weak in spelling
    

• tending downward in price
  • a weak market for oil stocks
    

• wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
  • I'm only a fallible human
    
  • frail humanity
    

• (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
  • a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable
    
  • a weak stress on the second syllable
    

• overly diluted; thin and insipid
  • washy coffee
    
  • watery milk
    
  • weak tea
    

• wanting in physical strength
  • a weak pillar
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  faint , decrepit , debile , feeble , infirm , rickety , sapless , weakly , fallible , frail , imperfect , unaccented , light , watery , washy