Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Delicate in constitution; frail or sickly.
- adverb With little physical strength or force.
- adverb With little strength of character.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Weak; feeble; not robust: as, a weakly woman; a man of weakly constitution.
- In a weak manner, in any sense of the word weak.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
- adjective Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Frail ,sickly or of adelicate constitution ;weak . - adverb With little
strength orforce
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree
- adjective lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
Etymologies
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Examples
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I heard her call my name weakly as I slammed my car door.
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A term weakly normalizes when it has an nf, whereas a term strongly normalizes when all its reduction sequences lead to an nf
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As a collection of four mini-games, emphasis on the "mini," this title weakly uses events from the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as inspiration, allowing you to ride a luge-like ramp in the Skeleton, enjoy-loose use of the word there-Curling, tap and trace on the screen for Figure Skating, and ride a board in Snowboard Cross.
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Here Bassett, helped by Ngurn and Balatta, weakly sat up, swaying weakly from the hips, and with clear, unfaltering, all-seeing eyes gazed upon the Red One.
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But making an extra trip to the galley a little later, I was gladdened by the sight of Harrison staggering weakly from the rigging to the forecastle scuttle.
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Defend actual Democrats in weakly liberal or weakly conservative seats.
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Neutrinos are an example of a dark matter candidate we call a weakly interacting massive particle, or a WIMP.
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Neutrinos are an example of a dark matter candidate we call a weakly interacting massive particle, or a WIMP.
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I lay in weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me.
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The observant reader will have spotted the appearance above of the expression weakly stratified.
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