Synonyms of the word

weak

• adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
• adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
• adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible;…
• adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
• adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including.
• adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
• adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
• adj. (slang) Bad or uncool.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted…
• adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
• adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
• adj. Lacking in vigour or expression.
• adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
• adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
• adj. (photography) Lacking contrast.

adynamic

• adj. Not dynamic; without strength or vigor.

anaemic

• adj. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of anemic.
• n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of anemic.

anemic

• adj. Of or pertaining to anemia.
• adj. (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.
• n. An individual who has anemia.

asthenic

• adj. Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

debile

• adj. (obsolete) Weak.

debilitated

• adj. Weakened.
• adj. run down, damaged, in disrepair.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of debilitate.

decrepit

• adj. Weakened or worn out from age or wear.

delicate

• adj. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
• adj. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
• adj. Intended for use with fragile items.
• adj. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
• adj. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
• adj. (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
• adj. (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
• adj. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
• adj. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
• adj. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
• adj. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
• adj. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
• adj. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
• n. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
• n. (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
• n. (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

dilute

• v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
• v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
• v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
• v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
• adj. Having a low concentration.
• adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

diluted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dilute.
• adj. That has had something added in order to dilute it.

down

• n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland.
• n. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
• n. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered…
• n. (slang, rare, countable) A penis.
• adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
• adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
• adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
• adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
• adv. Into a state of non-operation.
• adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
• adv. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
• adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
• adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
• adv. From less to greater detail.
• adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
• adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather…
• prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
• prep. From one end to another of.
• adj. Depressed, feeling low.
• adj. At a lower level than before.
• adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
• adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
• adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to.
• adj. (not comparable, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
• adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
• adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled…
• adj. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
• adj. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down,…
• adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.).
• adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
• v. (transitive) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid…
• v. (transitive) To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
• v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
• v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while…
• v. (transitive) To write off; to make fun of.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
• n. A negative aspect; a downer.
• n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
• n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
• n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle…
• n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
• n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
• n. Down payment.
• n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping…
• n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as…
• n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• v. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

enervated

• adj. Weakened, debilitated or deprived of strength or vitality.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of enervate.

faint

• adj. (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness.
• adj. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
• adj. hardly perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
• adj. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
• adj. Slight; minimal.
• n. The act of fainting, syncope.
• n. (rare) The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
• v. (intransitive) To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as…
• v. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
• v. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

fallible

• adj. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

feeble

• adj. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
• adj. Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
• v. (obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.

flaccid

• adj. Flabby.
• adj. Soft; floppy.
• adj. Lacking energy or vigor.

flimsy

• adj. Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
• n. Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
• n. (informal, in the plural) Skimpy underwear.

fragile

• adj. Easily broken or destroyed, and thus often of subtle or intricate structure.

frail

• adj. Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily…
• adj. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
• n. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
• n. The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
• n. A rush for weaving baskets.
• n. (dated, slang) A girl.
• v. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

gutless

• adj. (informal) cowardly; lacking courage or morals.

human

• adj. (not comparable) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
• adj. (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
• n. A human being, whether man, woman or child.
• v. (rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.

imperfect

• adj. Not perfect.
• adj. (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
• adj. (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
• adj. (obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
• n. Something having a minor flaw.
• n. (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
• v. (transitive) To make imperfect.

infirm

• adj. Weak or ill, not in good health.
• adj. Irresolute; weak of mind or will.
• adj. Frail; unstable; insecure.
• v. To contradict, to provide proof that something is not.

jerry-built

• adj. Built cheaply and shoddily.

lame

• adj. Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
• adj. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
• adj. (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
• adj. (slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
• adj. (slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
• adj. (slang) Strangely corny or sweet to an extent.
• v. (transitive) to cause a person or animal to become lame.
• n. A lamina.
• n. (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
• v. (obsolete) To shine.

lax

• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
• adj. lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
• adj. loose; not tight or taut.
• adj. lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
• adj. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
• adj. (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
• n. (slang) Lacrosse.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

limp

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen; befall; chance.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come upon; meet.
• adj. flaccid; flabby, like flesh.
• adj. lacking stiffness; flimsy.
• adj. (of a penis) not erect.
• adj. (of a man) not having an erect penis.
• adj. physically weak.
• v. (intransitive) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
• n. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore…
• v. (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
• v. (poker slang, intransitive) To call.
• n. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
• n. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
• n. A code-word among Jacobites, standing for Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of…

namby-pamby

• adj. Insipid and sentimental.
• adj. Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy.
• n. One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
• n. Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.

pale

• adj. Light in color.
• adj. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
• adj. Feeble, faint.
• v. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
• v. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
• n. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
• n. A wooden stake; a picket.
• n. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
• n. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
• n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
• n. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
• n. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
• n. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
• n. A cheese scoop.
• n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
• v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

pallid

• adj. Appearing weak, pale, or wan.

perceptible

• adj. Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
• n. Anything that can be perceived.

powerless

• adj. Lacking sufficient power or strength.
• adj. Lacking legal authority.

puny

• n. (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
• n. (obsolete) A younger person.
• n. (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
• n. (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
• adj. Of inferior size, strength or significance.

regular

• adj. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to…
• adj. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
• adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same…
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
• adj. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
• adj. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
• adj. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
• adj. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of…
• adj. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
• adj. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
• adj. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
• adj. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
• adj. Belonging to a monastic order or community.
• adj. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
• adj. (crystallography) isometric.
• adj. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
• adj. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular…
• adv. (archaic, Britain, dialect) Regularly, on a regular basis.
• n. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
• n. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
• n. A frequent customer, client or business partner.
• n. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
• n. Anything that is normal or standard.

rickety

• adj. Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure; giddy;…
• adj. Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.
• adj. Affected with or suffering from rickets.

sapless

• adj. (of a plant) Lacking in sap.
• adj. (figuratively, of a person etc.) Lacking vivacity.

shoddy

• adj. Of poor quality or construction.
• n. A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.

sick

• adj. Having an urge to vomit.
• adj. (chiefly US) In poor health.
• adj. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
• adj. (colloquial) In bad taste.
• adj. Tired of or annoyed by something.
• adj. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
• adj. In poor condition.
• adj. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
• n. Sick people in general as a group.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) vomit.
• v. To vomit.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
• v. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic.

slack

• n. (uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
• n. (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
• n. (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
• n. (countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
• adj. Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
• adj. Weak; not holding fast.
• adj. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
• adj. Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
• adj. (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
• adv. Slackly.
• v. To slacken.
• v. (obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
• v. (followed by “off”) to procrastinate; to be lazy.
• v. (followed by “off”) to refuse to exert effort.
• v. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

slight

• adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
• adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
• adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
• adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
• adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
• v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
• v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
• v. To act negligently or carelessly.
• v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
• v. To make even or level.
• v. To throw heedlessly.
• n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
• n. (obsolete) Sleight.

spineless

• adj. Having no spine.
• adj. Cowardly; uncourageous.

stupid

• adj. Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
• adj. To the point of stupor.
• adj. (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
• adj. (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• adj. (slang) damn, annoying, darn.
• adv. (slang, dated) Extremely.
• n. A stupid person; a fool.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) The state or condition of being stupid.

tender

• adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
• adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
• n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
• n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• v. (formal) To offer, to give.
• v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
• n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

tenuous

• adj. Thin in substance or consistency.
• adj. insubstantial.

thin

• adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
• adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
• adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
• adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
• adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
• adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
• adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
• adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
• n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
• n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
• v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
• v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
• v. To dilute.
• v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
• adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

unaccented

• adj. Of a word, having no diacritical mark; accentless.
• adj. Of a vowel or syllable, pronounced with no, or little stress.
• adj. Not pronounced with a distinctive accent.

unskilled

• adj. Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
• adj. Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
• adj. Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

unstressed

• adj. (of a vowel) not stressed or accentuated.
• adj. not subject to stress.

untoughened

• adj. Not toughened.

vulnerable

• adj. More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
• adj. (computing) More likely to be exposed to malicious programs or viruses.

wan

• adj. Pale, sickly-looking.
• adj. Dim, faint.
• adj. Bland, uninterested.
• n. The quality of being wan; wanness.
• n. Eye dialect spelling of one, representing Ireland English.
• n. (Ireland) girl or woman.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of win.

washy

• adj. Watery; damp; soft.
• adj. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble.
• adj. (US, dialect, archaic) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour.
• n. (childish or poetic, rare) A wash, an act of washing.

watery

• adj. Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
• adj. Diluted or having too much water.
• adj. (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
• adj. Weak and insipid.
• adj. Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
• adj. Tearful.

weakened

• adj. Reduced, made less strong.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of weaken.

weakly

• adj. Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
• adv. With little strength or force.

wishy-washy

• adj. Wavering; lacking in commitment, certainty, or support; namby-pamby.
• adj. Thin or watery.