Usually means: Lacking strength, power, or vigor.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. weak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. weak, the weak: Merriam-Webster
  3. weak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. weak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. weak: Collins English Dictionary
  6. weak: Vocabulary.com
  7. Weak, weak: Wordnik
  8. weak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. weak: Wiktionary
  10. weak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. weak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. weak: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. weak: Dictionary.com
  14. weak: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. weak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Weak (AJR song), Weak (Fear the Walking Dead), Weak (Melanie C song), Weak (SWV song), Weak (Skunk Anansie song), Weak (song), Weak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Weak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. weak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. weak: Rhymezone
  20. weak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. weak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. weak: FreeDictionary.org
  23. weak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. weak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. weak: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weak: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weak: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. WEAK: Acronym Finder
  4. weak: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weak, weak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Weak: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
adjective:  Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
adjective:  Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
adjective:  (often with for) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
adjective:  Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
adjective:  (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
adjective:  (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
adjective:  (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
adjective:  (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
adjective:  (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
adjective:  (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
adjective:  (slang) Bad or uncool.
adjective:  (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
adjective:  Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
adjective:  Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
adjective:  Lacking in vigour or expression.
adjective:  Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
adjective:  (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
adjective:  (photography) Lacking contrast.

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