Weakly

Definitions: Weakly

Weakly

Adjective

1. Lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless".

Adverb

1. In a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; "weakly agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly attracted to her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weakly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Weakly

Disease

Weakly, weakened; (weak); decrepit; decayed; (deteriorated); incurable; (hopeless); in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund; (death).

Weakness

Adjective: weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved; Verb: sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous.

Crosswords: Weakly

Attend Church weekly not weakly. (references; author: unknown)

The Weakly Reporter (1944)

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Books

• Multidimensional Weakly Singular Integral Equations (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1549) (reference)

• Stars As Laboratories for Fundamental Physics: The Astrophysics of Neutrinos, Axions, and Other Weakly Interacting Particles (Theoretical) (reference)

• Structure and Dynamics of Weakly Bound Molecular Complexes (NATO Advanced Science Institute Series C: Mathematics and Physical Science) (reference)

• Weakly Connected Neural Networks (reference)

• Weakly Nonlinear Dirichlet Problems on Long or Thin Domains (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 501) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Weakly Logic [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He leaned back weakly in his desk.

Grampa choked, and a mouthful of paste sprayed into his lap, and he coughed weakly.

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Health

However, its presence alone is no more than weakly predictive of clinical caries activity. (references)

The group's results indicated that estrogenic effects are additive rather than synergistic, and therefore mixtures of two compounds can be expected to be weakly estrogenic and will not have a dramatic adverse environmental and human health impact. (references)

In experiments by McLachlan and colleagues, reported in the 7 June 1996 issue of Science, a combination of the weakly estrogenic pesticides endosulfan, dieldrin, toxaphene, and chlordane, measured by yeast cell ER binding assays, produced estrogenic activity 150-1,600 times greater than for any of the chemicals alone. (references)

Business

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), including trademark and patent laws, have been weakly enforced so far in Egypt. (references)

Civil Liberties

Albania

Several broadcasters failed to pay for their licenses or abide by the regulations governing the licenses; however, these regulations were enforced weakly. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

Under the new bank monitoring system instituted by the BRSA, other weakly capitalized banks must meet the minimum eight-percent capital adequacy ratio of assets to liabilities by year-end 2001. (references)

Egypt

Although the concept of "marketing," as compared to simply selling, or waiting for the customer to find and come to you, is new to Egypt and weakly practiced, there are a growing number of good Egyptian firms who know what they are doing and how to market the products in which they specialize. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

A Hudood law meant to deter false accusations is enforced weakly, and one human rights monitor claimed that 80 percent of adultery-related Hudood cases are filed without supporting evidence. (references)

Women

Belize

The laws carry penalties of fines up to $500 (bz$1,000) or 1 year of imprisonment, and are weakly enforced. (references)

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

Expressions using "weakly": weakly acidic ♦ weakly adequate grammar ♦ weakly basic ♦ weakly typed. Additional references.

Beginning with "weakly": weakly-developed, weakly-flying, weakly-striped, weakly-structured.

Albanian

shëndetlig (cachectic, sickly, spindling, unhealthy, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakling), pa forcë, 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, weak, woozy), dobët (faintly, flabbily, poorly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يوهن, ‏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, weak, weakling, wimp), ‏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, weak, weakened, weakling, wimp, wishy washy), ‏بوهن, ‏بضعف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабо (faintly, flabbily, low, meanly, remotely, slightly), 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, weak, weakish), хилав (effete, feeble, frail, puny, sickly), болнав (ailing, cachectic, delicate, invalid, pimping, poorly, punk, sickly, unhealthy, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary). (various references)

Chinese 

微弱地 (Faintly). (various references)

Czech

slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, faint, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weak-minded, weary). (various references)

Danish

svagt adækvat grammatik (weakly adequate grammar). (various references)

Dutch

zwakjes (lightly), zwak (faint, light, lightly, weak), lichtjes (lightly). (various references)

Esperanto

malforte (lightly). (various references)

French

sans force, maladif, faiblement, chétif, apathique (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, weak, wishy washy), schwächlich (puny). (various references)

Greek 

ασθενώσ, ασθενικόσ (feeble, sickly). (various references)

Hebrew 

חלוש (effete, exhausted, feeble, frail, infirm, soft), חולני (ailing, morbid, sick, sickly, unhealthy). (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, weak), gyengén (low, poorly), betegesen (woozily). (various references)

Indonesian

dengan lemah (faintly). (various references)

Italian

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

Japanese Kanji 

して言えば (always, be in shape, being downhearted, blearily, chat, clipped, constantly, crisp, Damn it!, drizzling, easy to do, easy to make, gently, hold a dignified appearance, if I must say, precise, rice prepared for sushi, shamelessly, stubborn, style of Japanese cooking, talk, tenacious, to be dejected, to be disheartened, to be dispirited, to chew, to lose heart, to pee, to piss, to squat, to suck). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょぼしょぼ (blearily, drizzling). (various references)

Korean 

약하게. (various references)

Pig Latin

eaklyway

Polish

słabo. (various references)

Portuguese

fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble minded, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk and water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, wishy washy), fracamente (low, slightly), frágil (brash, breakable, brittle, dainty, decayed, decrepit, delicate, dilapidated, fragile, frail, friable, lapsed, pasteboard, rickety, sleazy, tender, weak, well-made), enfermo (diseased, ill, ill founded, infirmary, invalid, sick, sickly, unhealthy, weak-kneed), doentio (crank, diseased, green, insalubrity, insanitary, morbid, reckling, sickly, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, wan, weak, wishy washy), debilmente, débil (broken, enervate, failure, faint, feeble, fragile, frail, infirm, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weak). (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, weak), fãrã putere (adynamic, groggy, powerless, washy), debil (delicate, feeble, frail, lymphatic, sickly), bolnãvicios (cranky, delicate, dicky, diseased, frail, invalid, pasty, seedy, sickly, unhealthy, valetudinarian, weedy), bleg (blockhead, dolt, drooping, flabby, flaccid, foolish, half hearted, remiss, sheepish, shy, silly, skulker, sloppy, sluggish, timid, weak), becisnic (delicate, frail, impotent, infirm, sickly). (various references)

Russian 

слабо (faintly, flabbily, meanly, poorly, underact, wanly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slabašno, slabašan (doddered, puny), bolešljiv (pimping, sickly, valetudinarian, valetudinary). (various references)

Sotho

fokolang. (various references)

Spanish

flaco (foible, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, weakness), flacamente, enclenque (infirm), enclenco (sickly). (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, weak-kneed). (various references)

Turkish

zayıf bir şekilde, zaaf ile, hastalıklı (Dickey, dicky, diseased, infirm, morbid, sickly, unwholesome, valetudinarian, valetudinary), hasta (ailing, buff, case, client, diseased, fan, fanatical, ill, in bad health, invalid, patient, poorly, sick, sufferer, under the weather, unsound, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, wonky), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked). (various references)

Ukranian 

слабко, слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak), хворобливий (cachectic, crocky, diseased, frail, morbid, unhealthy, valetudinarian, wishy washy), кволий (ailing, bedrid, crocky, dicky, feeble, fey, languid, nerveless, powerless, puny, ramshackle, silly, spindly, washy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

yếu ớt hơi, yếu ớt (effeminate, faintly, impuissant, slack, soft, womanish), yếu (feeble, mild, strengthless, weak), hơi hơi, ốm yếu (broken-down, infirm, queerish, unhealthy). (various references)

Welsh

gwanllyd (delicate). (various references)

gelide, infirme, infirmiter. (various references)

Misspellings

"Weakly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wealy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: leaky.

-2 letters: alky, kale, lake, laky, leak, wake, wale, walk, waly, weak, weal, weka, wyle, yawl, yelk.

-3 letters: ale, awe, awl, aye, elk, kae, kay, kea, key, law, lay, lea, lek, ley, lye, wae, way, wye, yak, yaw, yea, yew.

-4 letters: ae, al, aw, ay, el, ka, la, we, ya, ye.

+2 letters: walkyrie.

+3 letters: jaywalked, jaywalker, wakefully, walkyries.

+4 letters: jaywalkers, lawyerlike, lukewarmly.

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