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  Weak \Weak\ (w[=e]k), a. [Compar. Weaker (w[=e]k"[~e]r);
     superl. Weakest.] [OE. weik, Icel. veikr; akin to Sw. vek,
     Dan. veg soft, flexible, pliant, AS. w[=a]c weak, soft,
     pliant, D. week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen
     in Icel. v[=i]kja to turn, veer, recede, AS. w[=i]can to
     yield, give way, G. weichen, OHG. w[=i]hhan, akin to Skr.
     vij, and probably to E. week, L. vicis a change, turn, Gr.
     e'i`kein to yield, give way. [root]132. Cf. Week, Wink,
     v. i. Vicissitude.]
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     1. Wanting physical strength. Specifically: 
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        (a) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly;
            debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
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                  A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
                                                    --Shak.
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                  Weak with hunger, mad with love.  --Dryden.
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        (b) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or
            strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.
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        (c) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or
            separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.
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        (d) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of
            a plant.
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        (e) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily
            subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak
            fortress.
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        (f) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous;
            low; small; feeble; faint.
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                  A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.
                                                    --Ascham.
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        (g) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the
            usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and
            nourishing substances; of less than the usual
            strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak
            decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.
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        (h) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office;
            as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a
            weak regiment, or army.
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     2. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical,
        moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically: 
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        (a) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor;
            spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.
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                  To think every thing disputable is a proof of a
                  weak mind and captious temper.    --Beattie.
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                  Origen was never weak enough to imagine that
                  there were two Gods.              --Waterland.
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        (b) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment,
            discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
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                  If evil thence ensue,
                  She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
                                                    --Milton.
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        (c) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided
            or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
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                  Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but
                  not to doubtful disputations.     --Rom. xiv. 1.
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        (d) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion,
            etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome;
            accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak
            virtue.
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                  Guard thy heart
                  On this weak side, where most our nature fails.
                                                    --Addison.
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        (e) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties;
            a weak sense of honor of duty.
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        (f) Not having power to convince; not supported by force
            of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument
            or case. ``Convinced of his weak arguing.'' --Milton.
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                  A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in.
                                                    --Hooker.
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        (g) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak
            sentence; a weak style.
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        (h) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be
            prevalent; not potent; feeble. ``Weak prayers.''
            --Shak.
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        (i) Lacking in elements of political strength; not
            wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in
            the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation;
            as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.
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                  I must make fair weather yet awhile,
                  Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong.
                                                    --Shak.
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        (k) (Stock Exchange) Tending towards lower prices; as, a
            weak market.
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     3. (Gram.)
        (a) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its
            preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to
            the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form
            -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated;
            deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19
        (a) .
        (b) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon,
            etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19
        (b) .
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     4. (Stock Exchange) Tending toward a lower price or lower
        prices; as, wheat is weak; a weak market.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     5. (Card Playing) Lacking in good cards; deficient as to
        number or strength; as, a hand weak in trumps.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     6. (Photog.) Lacking contrast; as, a weak negative.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     Note: Weak is often used in the formation of self-explaining
           compounds; as, weak-eyed, weak-handed, weak-hearted,
           weak-minded, weak-spirited, and the like.
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     Weak conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of weak verbs; --
        called also new conjugation, or regular conjugation,
        and distinguished from the old conjugation, or
        irregular conjugation.
  
     Weak declension (Anglo-Saxon Gram.), the declension of weak
        nouns; also, one of the declensions of adjectives.
  
     Weak side, the side or aspect of a person's character or
        disposition by which he is most easily affected or
        influenced; weakness; infirmity.
  
     weak sore or weak ulcer (Med.), a sore covered with pale,
        flabby, sluggish granulations.
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  Weak \Weak\, v. t. & i. [Cf. AS. w?can. w[=a]cian. See Weak,
     a.]
     To make or become weak; to weaken. [R.]
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           Never to seek weaking variety.           --Marston.
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  Weak \Weak\ (w[=e]k), a. [Compar. Weaker (-[~e]r); superl.
     Weakest.] [OE. weik, Icel. veikr; akin to Sw. vek, Dan. veg
     soft, flexible, pliant, AS. w[=a]c weak, soft, pliant, D.
     week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen in Icel.
     v[=i]kja to turn, veer, recede, AS. w[=i]can to yield, give
     way, G. weichen, OHG. w[=i]hhan, akin to Skr. vij, and
     probably to E. week, L. vicis a change, turn, Gr. e'i`kein to
     yield, give way. [root]132. Cf. Week, Wink, v. i.
     Vicissitude.]
     1. Wanting physical strength. Specifically:
        (a) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly;
            debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
  
                  A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
                                                    --Shak.
  
                  Weak with hunger, mad with love.  --Dryden.
        (b) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or
            strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.
        (c) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or
            separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.
        (d) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of
            a plant.
        (e) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily
            subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak
            fortress.
        (f) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous;
            low; small; feeble; faint.
  
                  A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.
                                                    --Ascham.
        (g) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the
            usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and
            nourishing substances; of less than the usual
            strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak
            decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.
        (h) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office;
            as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a
            weak regiment, or army.
  
     2. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical,
        moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically: 
        (a) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor;
            spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.
  
                  To think every thing disputable is a proof of a
                  weak mind and captious temper.    --Beattie.
  
                  Origen was never weak enough to imagine that
                  there were two Gods.              --Waterland.
        (b) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment,
            discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
  
                  If evil thence ensue, She first his weak
                  indulgence will accuse.           --Milton.
        (c) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided
            or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
  
                  Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but
                  not to doubtful disputations.     --Rom. xiv. 1.
        (d) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion,
            etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome;
            accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak
            virtue.
  
                  Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most
                  our nature fails.                 --Addison.
        (e) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties;
            a weak sense of honor of duty.
        (f) Not having power to convince; not supported by force
            of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument
            or case. ``Convinced of his weak arguing.'' --Milton.
  
                  A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in.
                                                    --Hooker.
        (g) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak
            sentence; a weak style.
        (h) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be
            prevalent; not potent; feeble. ``Weak prayers.''
            --Shak.
        (i) Lacking in elements of political strength; not
            wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in
            the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation;
            as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.
  
                  I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry
                  be more weak, and I more strong.  --Shak.
        (k) (Stock Exchange) Tending towards lower prices; as, a
            weak market.
  
     3. (Gram.)
        (a) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its
            preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to
            the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form
            -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated;
            deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19
        (a) .
        (b) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon,
            etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19
        (b) .
  
     Note: Weak is often used in the formation of self-explaining
           compounds; as, weak-eyed, weak-handed, weak-hearted,
           weak-minded, weak-spirited, and the like.

  Weak \Weak\, v. t. & i. [Cf. AS. w?can. w[=a]cian. See Weak,
     a.]
     To make or become weak; to weaken. [R.]
  
           Never to seek weaking variety.           --Marston.

  Weak \Weak\, a.
     1. (Stock Exchange) Tending toward a lower price or lower
        prices; as, wheat is weak; a weak market.
  
     2. (Card Playing) Lacking in good cards; deficient as to
        number or strength; as, a hand weak in trumps.
  
     3. (Photog.) Lacking contrast; as, a weak negative.

  weak
       adj 1: having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak radio
              signal"; "a weak link" [ant: strong]
       2: overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery
          milk"; "weak tea" [syn: watery, washy]
       3: lacking power [syn: powerless] [ant: powerful]
       4: 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" [syn: unaccented,
           light]
       5: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine
          beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn: fallible,
           frail, imperfect]
       6: lacking force; feeble; "a forceless argument" [syn: forceless,
           unforceful] [ant: forceful]
       7: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman";
          "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble,
           infirm, sapless, weakly]
       8: used of verbs having standard (or regular) inflection
       9: lacking physical strength or vigor
       10: characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an
           effeminate civilization" [syn: effeminate]

  weak
     Αγγλικά a.
     αδύνατος, ασθενής

  weak
     West Frisian a.
     (lb fy Clay) soft
     West Frisian alt.
     (l fy wêk) (q: Wood)

  weak
     a.
     1 Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
     2 Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
     3 Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily
  impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.

  weak
     West Frisian a.
     (lb fy Clay) soft
     West Frisian alt.
     (l fy wêk) (q: Wood)

  weak
     West Frisian a.
     (lb fy Clay) soft
     West Frisian alt.
     (l fy wêk) (q: Wood)

  weak
     Englanti a.
     heikko

  weak
     Engelska a.
     svag, klen, vek

  weak /wˈiːk/
  swak

  Weak /wˈiːk/
  ضعيف

  weak //wiːk// 
  слаб
  lacking in force or ability

  weak /wˈiːk/ 
  slabý

  weak /wˈiːk/
  mátožný

  weak /wˈiːk/
  oslabený

  weak /wˈiːk/
  mdlý

  weak /wˈiːk/ 
  gwan 

  weak /wˈiːk/
  charakterschwach 
     Synonym: of weak character
  

  weak /wˈiːk/
  energielos, schwach 

  weak /wˈiːk/
  schwach, flau 
   see: weaker, weakest
  

  weak /wˈiːk/ 
  dünn, schwach , schwach konzentriert [chem.]
           Note: Lösung
           Note: solution

  weak /wˈiːk/
  
  ανίσχυρος, αδύναμος

  weak //wiːk// 
  1. laimea, mieto
  dilute, lacking in taste or potency
  2. heikko, säännöllinen
  grammar: regular in inflection
  3. heikko 2.
  lacking in force or ability
   3.
  physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay
  4. huono
  slang: bad or uncool

  weak /wiːk/
  faible

  weak /wˈiːk/ 
  1. कमज़ोर
        "Weak minded do not take risks."
        "She has a weak heart."
        "His argument was weak."
  2. निस्तेज
        "He is weak to be a commander."
        "It was a weak ruling political party ."
  3. मन्द
        "I advised him not to invest in shares as the market is weak."
        "The car was going with weak lights."
  4. नीरस
        "The tea is weak."

  weak /wˈiːk/
  malodušan, nemoćan, nepouzdan, slab, slabi

  weak /wˈiːk/
  1. híg
  2. gyenge
  3. hatástalan
  4. gyönge
  5. egyes osztályzat
  6. gyarló

  weak //wiːk// 
  lemah
  lacking in force or ability

  weak /wˈiːk/
  debole

  weak //wiːk// 
  1. 薄い
  dilute, lacking in taste or potency
  2. 弱変化の, 弱い
  grammar: regular in inflection
  3. 弱い 2.
  lacking in force or ability
   3.
  physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay
  4. ださい
  slang: bad or uncool

  weak /wiːk/
  æger

  weak /wiːk/
  silpnas, neryžtingas (perk.)

  weak /wiːk/
  licht, zwak

  weak /wi:k/ 
   1.  słaby
   2.  wątły

  weak /wiːk/ 
  débil, fraco

  weak /wiːk/
  débil

  weak //wiːk// 
  1. svag 2.
  grammar: regular in inflection
   3.
  dilute, lacking in taste or potency
   4.
  physics: one of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay
  2. svag, vek
  lacking in force or ability

  weak /wˈiːk/
  1. zayıf, kuvvetsiz, mecalsiz, takatsiz
  2. hafif, dayanıksız
  3. metanetsiz
  4. sebatsız
  5. akılsız, şaşkın
  6. eksik
  7. hükümsüz
  8. (foto.) silik çıkmış
  9. (dilb.) vurgusuz
  10. düşük. weak sister (k. dili) dayanıksız ve zayıf kimse. weakly   hasta, hastalıklı
  11. zaaf ile
  12. zayıf surette. weak'ness  zaaf, zafiyet, iradesizlik
  13. kusur
  14. zaaf duyulan şey.

  
/ˈwik/

  523 Moby Thesaurus words for "weak":
     Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, abulic, accented, accessible,
     achromatic, achromic, afraid, airy, alveolar, amenable, anemic,
     anile, anthropocentric, anthropological, apical, apico-alveolar,
     apico-dental, articulated, ashen, ashy, assailable, assimilated,
     asthenic, attackable, attenuate, attenuated, back, backsliding,
     barely audible, barytone, beatable, bilabial, blear, bleared,
     bleary, bled white, bloodless, blurred, blurry, boyish, broad,
     bungling, cacuminal, cadaverous, careless, carnal, central,
     cerebral, checked, chicken, chickenhearted, chloranemic, close,
     colorless, confused, conquerable, consonant, consonantal,
     continuant, coward, cowardly, cowed, crabbed, dark, daunted, dead,
     deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, decrepit, decrescendo,
     delicate, dental, diaphanous, dickey, dilute, diluted, dim, dimmed,
     dingy, discolored, dismayed, dissimilated, distant, doddered,
     doddering, doddery, dorsal, drooping, droopy, dull, earthy, easy,
     easygoing, effete, emasculate, enervated, enfeebled, erring,
     ethereal, etiolated, expugnable, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
     exsanguineous, fade, faded, fagged, faint, faint-voiced,
     fainthearted, fainting, faintish, fallen, fallow, fatigued,
     fearful, featherweight, feeble, feebleminded, feeling faint, filmy,
     fine, fine-drawn, finespun, finite, flabby, flaccid, flagging,
     flat, flavorless, fleshly, flimsy, floppy, fluctuant, foggy,
     footsore, forceless, fossilized, fragile, frail, frazzled, front,
     funking, funky, fuzzy, gauzy, gentle, gerontal, gerontic, ghastly,
     girlish, glide, glossal, glottal, gone, good and tired, gossamer,
     gracile, gray, gruelly, gutless, guttural, haggard, half-heard,
     half-seen, half-visible, hard, hazy, heavy, henhearted, hesitant,
     high, hominal, homocentric, hueless, human, humanistic,
     hypochromic, ill-defined, imbecile, impotent, imprecise,
     impressionable, improbable, impure, inadequate, inane, incompetent,
     inconceivable, inconclusive, inconspicuous, incredible, indefinite,
     indifferent, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffective,
     ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, infirm, influenceable, insecure,
     insipid, insubstantial, intimidated, intonated, invertebrate,
     irresolute, jaded, jejune, labial, labiodental, labiovelar,
     lackluster, lacy, languid, languorous, lapsed, lax, leaden,
     lenient, light, lightweight, lily-livered, limber, limp, lingual,
     liquid, listless, livid, loose, low, low-profile, lurid,
     lusterless, lustless, malleable, man-centered, marrowless, mat,
     mealy, merely glimpsed, mid, mild, milk-and-water, milk-livered,
     milksoppish, milksoppy, misty, monophthongal, mortal, mossbacked,
     moth-eaten, mousy, movable, muddy, mummylike, murmured, muted,
     narrow, nasal, nasalized, negligent, nerveless, neutral,
     no-account, obscure, occlusive, of easy virtue, of no account,
     only human, open, open-minded, out of focus, overindulgent,
     overpermissive, overtimid, overtimorous, oxytone, palatal,
     palatalized, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, palsied,
     panic-prone, panicky, papery, papery-skinned, pappy, pasty,
     peccable, penetrable, permissive, persuadable, persuasible,
     pervious, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic,
     pianissimo, piano, pigeonhearted, pitch, pitched, pithless,
     plastic, pliable, pliant, pooped, poor, postlapsarian, posttonic,
     powerless, pregnable, prodigal, pulpy, puny, rabbity, rare,
     rarefied, ravaged with age, ready to drop, receptive, recidivist,
     recidivistic, relaxed, remiss, responsive, retroflex, rickety,
     rootless, rounded, rubbery, run ragged, run to seed, run-down,
     rusty, sagging, sallow, sapless, savorless, scarcely heard, seedy,
     semivisible, semivowel, senile, shadowy, shaky, shriveled, sickly,
     sinewless, sissified, sissy, slack, slender, slenderish, slight,
     slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, slipshod, sloppy, small, soft,
     soft-sounding, soft-voiced, sonant, spiceless, spindly, spineless,
     stale, stopped, strengthless, stressed, stricken in years, strong,
     suasible, subaudible, subdued, subtle, suggestible, surd,
     surmountable, susceptible, svelte, swayable, syllabic, sylphlike,
     tallow-faced, tasteless, tellurian, tense, tenuous, thick, thin,
     thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, throaty,
     timeworn, timid, timorous, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, tonal,
     toneless, tonic, tottering, tottery, trimming, twangy, unaccented,
     unangelic, unauthoritative, unbelievable, uncertain, unchaste,
     unclean, unclear, uncolored, unconvincing, undefined, undependable,
     unfit, unflavored, ungodly, ungood, unhardened, unmanly, unmanned,
     unnerved, unplain, unproved, unqualified, unrecognizable,
     unrefreshed, unreliable, unrestored, unrestrained, unrighteous,
     unrigorous, unrounded, unsaintly, unsavory, unsound, unstable,
     unstressed, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsuitable, unsure,
     unsustained, unvirtuous, vacillating, vague, vapid, velar,
     vincible, virtueless, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel,
     vowellike, vulnerable, wan, wanton, washed-out, washy,
     wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, wavering,
     waxen, way-weary, wayward, wayworn, weak-kneed, weak-minded,
     weak-voiced, weak-willed, weakened, weakhearted, weakly, wearied,
     weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
     weary-worn, whey-faced, whispered, white, white-livered, wide,
     willowy, wilting, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy, withered,
     without any weight, wizened, wobbly, worn, worn-down, yellow
  
  

  a. 弱的,虚弱的,淡的;

     a. 虚弱的,弱的;差的,不够标准的;淡薄的,稀的