WEAK

Definition: WEAK

WEAK

Adjective

1. To make or become weak; to weaken.

Intransitive verb

1. Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.

2. Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.

3. Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.

4. Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.

5. Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

6. Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.

7. Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.

8. 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.

9. Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

10. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.

11. Wanting physical strength.

12. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

13. Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.

14. Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.

15. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.

16. Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.

17. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

18. 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.

19. Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

20. 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).

21. Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).

22. Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WEAK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Weak \Weak\ (w[=e]k), adjective. [Comparative Weaker(-[~e]r); superlative Weakest.]. (references)

Public Administration

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: WEAK

Brittleness

Adjective: brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting. Verb: lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Imbecility Folly

Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous.

Insipidity

Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.

Laxity

Adjective: lax, loose; slack; remiss; (careless); weak.

Uncleanness

Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Crosswords: WEAK

Men? Men are weak. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Beer in Supermarkets in Utah is weak, 3 points instead of the normal 6 points of alchohol (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

I will not be the weak link (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday)

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

I have the body of a weak and feeble man. (Oliver's Travels; writing credit: Alan Plater)

But she makes me weak (Flavor of the Weak; performing artist: American Hi-Fi)

Weak when we touch (I Get Weak; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

You call me strong, you call me weak but still your secrets I will keep (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

To make me weak inside (Drowning; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

You were my strength when I was weak (Because you loved me; performing artist: Celine Dion)

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Seven days without prayer makes one weak. (references; author: unknown)

You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. (references; author: unknown)

Be tender to the young, compassionate to the aged, tolerant with the weak; for in your life you will be all of these. (references; author: unknown)

Your thoughts can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. (references; author: unknown)

One Weak Vacation (1963)

The Flesh Is Weak (1957)

Too Weak to Work (1943)

His Weak Moment (1933)

-But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)

Weak (performing artist: SWV)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• E-Commerce Security: Weak Links, Best Defenses (reference)

• Strong and the Weak (reference)

• Strong Managers, Weak Owners (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Week Days Weak Knees (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Graphic of various combinations of strong and weak three-point fixes Hydrographic Manual. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

YEEHAW!!! What great weather!! Numerous weak stomachs helped feed the fish that night. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Figure 3. H. Fol and E. Sarasin photometer, 1885 model. From top to bottom - Device closed; device open; the surface float. This model was designed to fix the weak point of the preceding model that was not able to execute a sole measurement at a given depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 30. Pendulum current meter invented by Fridtjof Nansen in 1901 with considerable improvements made in 1903. This instrument was not able to accurately measure weak currents. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

GOES image of North America. Weak band of rain on the eastern seaboard. Bright thunderstorm clouds extend along a frontal system from the Central Gulf Coast states through the Midwest to the eastern Great Lakes. Patchy rain clouds are over the Pacific Northwest whle spotty snow clouds blanket the northern Rocky Mountain states. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Your lungs are your lungs weak or painful. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A big job for a weak washerwoman. Credit: Library of Congress.

A weak ticket in the field - and a weaker expected--If the Republicans have done feebly at Chicago, what may we expect of the Democrats at Cincinnati? / J.A. Wales. Credit: Library of Congress.

Weak shelf board endangers jars. Calvert County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The only difference is, great robbers punish little ones, to keep them in their obedience; but the great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world, and have the power in their own possession, which should punish offenders. (Second Treatise of Government)

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah--to "undo the heavy burdens [and] let the oppressed go free." And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities

From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly love for the weak and the suffering

He felt his body small and weak amid the throng of players and his eyes were weak and watery

And his mind was cataloguing weak points and suspicious things about the car.

Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A hesitant, interrupted, weak stream. (references)

Fatigue (feeling very weak and tired). (references)

With time bones may become weak and may break. (references)

Business

PLDT is strong in telecom infrastructure but weak in content. (references)

Weak demand has translated into dramatically increased competition for projects. (references)

The Australians have an additional advantage because of the weak Australian dollar. (references)

Children

Macedonia

Medical care for children is adequate but is hampered by the generally difficult economic circumstances of the country and by the weak national medical system. (references)

Namibia

Persons with Disabilities While discrimination on the basis of disability is not addressed in the Constitution, the Labor Act prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment; however, enforcement in this area was weak. (references)

Philippines

However, advocates for the rights of persons with disabilities contend that the law has been ineffective because implementing regulations are weak, funding is inadequate, and government programs are palliative rather than focused on integration. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

Many more are believed to be too poor to afford transportation or too weak to move. (references)

Russia

As a result of this financial dependence, the media's autonomy and its ability to act as a watchdog remained weak. (references)

Russia

During Glotov's interrogation, he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, placed in intensive care, and treated for a weak heart condition. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Due process is relatively weak. (references)

Slovak Rep

Slovakia's stock market is weak. (references)

India

Indian patent protection is weak. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

The lower courts remained understaffed and weak. (references)

Honduras

Coordination among the police, the courts, and the Public Ministry remained weak. (references)

Macedonia

Pretrial detention was a problem, and detainees frequently were held based on weak evidence. (references)

Indigenous People

Paraguay

Weak organization and lack of financial resources limit access by indigenous people to the political and economic system. (references)

Minorities

Bangladesh

Local gang leaders sometimes attack religious minorities, perceiving them to be weak and vulnerable. (references)

Political Economy

Uganda

The institution of Parliament is weak compared with the Executive. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

The multiparty system remains weak. (references)

Russia

Political parties historically are weak organizationally. (references)

Yemen

Central government authority in these areas often is weak. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

The banking system in Azerbaijan is small, weak, and plays a minimal role in an economy that mostly functions on cash. (references)

Costa Rica

SUGEF was established that same year, 1995, to provide more oversight of the banking sector, but it remains a weak institution. (references)

Armenia

Newly emerging private companies, with a few exceptions, are too weak to provide serious financing for long term projects of their own. (references)

Women

Botswana

Discrimination against women is most acute in rural areas where women engaged primarily in subsistence agriculture have weak property rights. (references)

Russia

Women also tend to work in industries where market reforms remain weak and wages low, such as the textile and defense sectors, while men increasingly are taking jobs in the fast-growing, more profitable financial and credit sectors where wages are substantially higher. (references)

Worker Rights

East Timor

These unions were weak, but active. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Weak

Expressions using "WEAK": a bit weak upstairs ♦ a cup of weak tea ♦ be weak ♦ become weak ♦ expose one's weak point ♦ feel weak at the knees ♦ grow weak ♦ have a weak chest ♦ have a weak heart ♦ make weak ♦ of weak parts ♦ put one's finger on the weak spot ♦ show one's weak point ♦ the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ♦ weak argument ♦ weak as milk and water ♦ weak character ♦ weak child ♦ weak conjugation ♦ weak declension ♦ weak drink ♦ weak force ♦ weak gas ♦ weak hand ♦ weak Head Normal Form ♦ weak in the upper story ♦ weak interaction ♦ weak memory ♦ weak part ♦ weak point ♦ weak side ♦ weak sore ♦ weak spot ♦ weak stomach ♦ weak tea ♦ weak team ♦ weak tie ♦ weak typing ♦ weak ulcer ♦ weak verb ♦ weak voice ♦ weak will ♦ weak wine. Additional references.

Beginning with "WEAK": weak-and, weak-chested, weak-chinned, weak-eyed, weak-form, weak-headed, Weak-hearted, weak-kneed, weak-link, weak-looking, Weak-minded, Weak-mindedness, weak-natured, weak-sighted, weak-sister, weak-spirited, weak-stem, weak-stemmed, weak-stemming, weak-stomached, weak-strong-weak, weak-syllable, weak-tabby, weak-tie, weak-willed, weak-willed person, weak-witted.

Ending with "WEAK": electro-weak.

Afrikaans

swak (faint, light). (various references)

Albanian

jorezistent, i thyeshëm (breakable, brittle, crisp, fragile, frangible, refrangible), i pafuqishëm (emasculate, feeble, infirm, peaky), i pafuqi (feeble, impotent, nerveless, null, powerless), i paaftë (bumbling, disabled, guiltless, helpless, impaired, impotent, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inept, muff, spado, unable, unskilful), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weightless), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weakly, woozy), gjysmë njeriu. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متخاذل (droopy, languid), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏واه (flimsy, slight), ‏غير حكيم (impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inexperienced, injudicious, unadvised, unwise), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏الضعيف (sheep), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏ركيك (pedestrian, prosaic). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабохарактерен (flabby, flaccid, frail, purposeless, weak-kneed), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weakish, weakly), чуплив (brash, breakable, brittle, egg shell, fragile, frail, frangible, shivery, short, slight, tender), с понижаващи се цени, отпаднал (faint, languorous, low, washed out), неустойчив (infirm, insecure, labile, non-persistent, rickety, top heavy, transient, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly), неударен (light, short, stressless, unaccented, unstressed), нерешителен (double-minded, faltering, half hearted, hesitant, hesitative, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, purposeless, shilly shally, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved), нетраен (adjective, corruptible, infirm, passing, perishable, spoilable), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, well-padded, yielding). (various references)

Chinese 

微弱 (faint, feeble). (various references)

Czech

slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, faint, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weakly, weak-minded, weary), nemocný (bad, diseased, ill, invalid, sick, sick man), neduživý (infirm, sickly, weedy), křehký (breakable, brittle, crisp, crunchy, delicate, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, inconstant, lissom, shattery, tender), chatrný (broken, coarse, delicate, frail, jerry built, paltry, poorly, shoddy, unsound), špatný (bad, black, defective, evil, faulty, ill, improper, inferior, low, poor, wicked, worthless, wrong). (various references)

Danish

svag (faint, light). (various references)

Dutch

zwak (faint, light, lightly, weakly), licht (bright, clear, easy, facile, faint, insubstantial, light, lightly, shallow, superficial, weakly). (various references)

Esperanto

malforta (faint, light). (various references)

Faeroese

veikur (faint, fuse, light, wick). (various references)

Farsi 

کم زور (Spent), کم رو, کم دوام (Memnetary), کم بنیه , سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid), ضعیف (Anemic, Atonic, Infirm, Languid, Lean, Light, Puny, Pusillanimous, Rickety, Sappy, Shaky, Slack, Slender). (various references)

Finnish

heikko (delicate, faint, feeble, frail, infirm, poor, slight). (various references)

French

faible (weak-kneed, weakling). (various references)

German

schwach (brittle, dim, dimly, docile, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, flimsily, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, infirm, infirmly, lame, languid, light, low, obscurely, poor, sinewed, slack, slender, slight, slightly, soft, thinly, uncertain, unsound, weakly, wishy washy), flau (depressed, faint, flat, insipid, light, listless, queasy, slack, sluggish). (various references)

Greek 

ασθενής (patient), ανίσχυρος, αδύναμοσ, αδύναμος (frail, powerless), αδύνατοσ (feeble, flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, washy), αδύνατος (puny). (various references)

Hebrew 

חלש (faint, feeble, flaccid, frail, run down, slight). (various references)

Hungarian

gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, dim, extenuate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weakly). (various references)

Icelandic

veikur (faint, ill, light, sick, unwell). (various references)

Indonesian

uzur (feeble, sickly), loyo (exhausted, faint), lemah (effete, enervate, foible, puny, thin), kendor (loose, slack), encer (aqueous, liquid, quick, smart, thin, washy), daif (incompetent, powerless), cair (fluid, melt, thin). (various references)

Italian

debole (dim, failing, faint, feeble, flimsy, frail, gone, helpless, impotent, infirm, light, nerveless, pale, powerless, strengthless, tenuous, unsound, weak point, weakly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薄弱 (feebleness, weakness), 弱い (delicate, frail, tender, unskilled). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なよなよ (delicate, supple), きはく (diluted, drive, lean, rarefied, rarified, soul, sparse, spirit, thin, vigor), びじゃく (faint, feeble), ひよわい (sickly), ひよわ (delicate, sickly), うすい (diluted, rain water, thin, watery), にがて (dislike, poor), かすか (dim, faint, hazy, indistinct, poor, wretched), るい (base, class, evil influence, family, genus, implication, involvement, kind, sort, thin, trouble), ウィーク (week), よわい (age, delicate, frail, tender, unskilled), じゃくたい, はくじゃく (feebleness, weakness), ちからよわい, � じゃく (coward, cowardly, effeminate, effete, enervated). (various references)

Korean 

약한 (frail). (various references)

Lombard

gnecch (faint, light). (various references)

Malay

lemah (faint, light). (various references)

Manx

lag (ill, loose, slack), feiosagh (flimsy, fragile, frail, lithe, slender, thin, thin in build, weakling, weed, weed of person, weedy), faase (feeble), annoonagh (frail, impotent person, invalid, weakening). (various references)

Papiamen

suak (faint, light), debil (faint, light). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakway.(various references)

Polish

słaby (faint, light). (various references)

Portuguese

débil (broken, enervate, failing, faint, fragile, frail, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weakly), fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

débil. (various references)

Romanian

slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slack, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weakly, wishy washy). (various references)

Scottish

fann (faint, light). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tanak (fine, finespun, gossamer, light, liny, scone, scrannel, sleazy, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, wispy), slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy), rovit (rear), nemoćan (feckless, feeble, infirm, powerless, sick, unable), šonjav (lackadaisical). (various references)

Spanish

débil (bad, dud, faint, feeble, flimsy, ill, infirm, lame duck, light). (various references)

Sranan

swaki (faint, light), loli (faint, light). (various references)

Swahili

hafifu (faint, light, miserable, poor). (various references)

Swedish

svag (faint, feckless, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, gone, impuissant, infirm, insubstantial, lame, light, low, mild, milk and water, off, reckling, rickety, shaky, shallow, small, subtle, tenuous, unsound, weak-kneed, weakly), vek (gentle, soft). (various references)

Tagalog

mahin� (faint, light, slow). (various references)

Turkish

zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, wishy washy, wishywashy), sulu (aqueous, enhydrous, hydrated, hydrous, juicy, lush, moist, Pappy, ripe, runny, sassy, saucily, saucy, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, soft, soupy, succulent, washy, watery, wet), silik (insignificant, meek, retiring), kuvvetsiz (atonic, feeble, sinewless, strengthless, washy), iradesiz (feeble minded, flabby, flaccid, invertebrate, irresolute, non compos, non compos mentis, simple, spineless, volitionless, weak-kneed, weak-minded), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weakly, wonky), hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feeble, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, mild, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, wishy washy), güçsüz (crank, doughy, feeble, flabby, helpless, impotent, ineffectual, powerless, sapless, shaky, sinewless, strengthless), dayanıksız (flimsy, not enduring, not fast, stalky), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, wishy washy, wishywashy), cılız (fatless, feeble, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, sickly, skinny, spindling, spindly, undersized), aciz (cheap, feckless, helpless, impotent, incapable, ineffectual, powerless, unable), acíz (faint, helpless, light). (various references)

Turkmen 

gujursyz, gowюak, ejiz (feeble, small boned), asgyn. (various references)

Ukrainian

слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weakly), слабий (asthenic, asthenical, dicky, dilute, di