📒 not physically strong
- She is still weak after her illness.
- His legs felt weak.
- She suffered from a weak heart.
📒 that cannot support a lot of weight; likely to break
- That bridge is too weak for heavy traffic.
- Weak foundations caused the building to collapse.
📒 easy to influence; not having much power
- a weak and cowardly man
- In a weak moment (= when I was easily persuaded) I said she could borrow the car.
- Small firms find themselves in a very weak position during a recession.
📒 people who are poor, sick or without power
📒 not financially strong or successful
- A weak dollar isn't bad news for everyone.
- a weak currency/yen/euro
- Is it your policy to have a relatively weak currency?
📒 a weak liquid contains a lot of water
📒 not easily seen or heard
- a weak light/signal/sound
- The weak winter sunlight spread across the lake.
📒 not good at something
- a weak team
- weak in something I was always weak in the science subjects.
- He's weak in English.
📒 that people are not likely to believe or be persuaded by
- weak arguments/evidence
- I enjoyed the movie but I thought the ending was very weak.
- The case for the prosecution was rather weak.
📒 done without enthusiasm or energy
- a weak smile
- He made a weak attempt to look cheerful.
📒 the part of a person’s character, an argument, etc. that is easy to attack or criticize
- The team's weak points are in defence.
- He knew her weak spot where Steve was concerned.
📒 a weak verb forms the past tense and past participle by adding a regular ending and not by changing a vowel. In English this is done by adding -d, -ed or -t (for example walk, walked).
📒 used when there is no stress on the word. For example, the weak form of and is /ən/ or /n/, as in fish and chips /fɪʃ ən tʃɪps/.
📒 you intend to do good things but you are too lazy, weak or busy to actually do them
📒 hardly able to stand because of emotion, fear, illness, etc.
- His sudden smile made her go weak at the knees.
📒 the point at which a system or an organization is most likely to fail
- She went straight for the one weak link in the chain of his argument.