Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of weak constitution or character.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A feeble creature.
- Feeble; weak.
Wiktionary
- adj. weak, either physically, morally or mentally
- n. A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution
- n. figuratively A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A weak or feeble creature.
- adj. Weak; feeble.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who is physically weak and ineffectual
Etymologies
- weak + -ling (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To call a weakling strong, a fool wise, a short man tall, a black man white, a sinner holy,—is, believe me, not praise but contumely.”
“He had never been called a weakling before -- he had never thought to be called a weakling, but the strangeness of that was less strange than something in her eyes, her voice, her spirit, which seemed drawing him on.”
“Though I am not, and never have been, save in the parole starvation time, what one would call a weakling, my first trip to town with eighty-five pounds of ore on my back nearly killed me.”
“Sr W. -- Most gracious maisty, 'twas I that did it, but indeed it was so poor and frail a note, compared with such as I am wont to furnish, yt in sooth I was ashamed to call the weakling mine in so august a presence.”
“Augustus: You state that Obama is a 'weakling' because he did not tell "... muslims to respect other religions" on his first trip to a muslim land.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“What kind of weakling needs government approval to do the right thing?”
“I've hammered on the Southeast Division quite a bit in recent years, but those teams' play this season has brought new meaning to definition of 'weakling'.”
“It had returned him to his former 'weakling' self, for a time.”
“I've been using the Rake/Ant stuff for a few weeks now, first for my "weakling" RubyGem which adds a queue-supporting WeakRef to JRuby, and now for cleaning up Duby's build process.”
“I've been a "weakling", and I've been a man, doing a man's work and providing for myself and my family.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘weakling’.
-
(LING)uistics
Words ending in 'ling'
youngling, fledgling, quisling, ridgeling, stripling, kitling, scatterling, earthling, foundling, hatchling, sapling, seedling and 7 more...
-
How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
-
Spod's Words
corpulent, squidge, squiffy, sinuosity, ebullient, finger, penetrate, stimulate, recalcitrant, recidivist, dunnock, rococo and 152 more...
-
Coward!
caitiff, craven, cur, dastard, funk, malingerer, poltroon, recreant, Scaramouch, invertebrate, jellyfish, fraidy cat and 53 more...
-
March10th
Vocabulary discussed from a talk by Nigel Marsh about work-life balance.
take stock, time out, punish, thorny, wretched, weakling, rather, whether, startled, warrior, worrier, timeframe and 9 more...
-
few, small or little words
pauciloquoys
few, paucity, poco, parvovirus, paraffin, pauper, poor, poverty, depauperate, impoverish, foal, filly and 80 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for weakling.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.