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NGSL Rank: 1682
weak
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Meanings
adjective
  • lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; having little physical strength or energy.
    E.g. she was recovering from flu, and was very weak
  • liable to break or give way under pressure; easily damaged.
    E.g. the salamander's tail may be broken off at a weak spot near the base
  • lacking intensity or brightness.
    E.g. a weak light from a single street lamp
  • denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by addition of a suffix (in English, typically -ed ).
  • relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts only at distances less than about 10−15 cm, is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions, and conserves neither strangeness, parity, nor isospin.

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