weak

Adjektiv

Worttrennung:

weak, Komparativ: weaker, Superlativ: weakest

Aussprache:

IPA: [wiːk]

Hörbeispiele:  weak ^(Info),  weak (US-amerikanisch) ^(Info)

Reime: -iːk

Bedeutungen:

[1] schwach

[2] empfindlich, kränklich

[3] charakterschwach, labil, schwächlich

[4] schwach, dünn

[5] schwach, flau

Synonyme:

[] debilitated, delicate, enfeebled, enervated, exhausted, faint, feeble, fragile, frail, infirm, invalid, languid, languished, shaky, sickly, spent, strengthless, tender, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weakly

[] accessible, defenceless, unprotected, vulnerable

[]light, soft, unstressed

[] boneless, infirm

[] compliant, irresolute, pliable, pliant, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, yielding

[] childish, foolish, imbecile, senseless, shallow, silly, simple, stupid, weak-minded, witless

[] erring, foolish, indiscreet, injudicious, unwise

[] faint, feeble, gentle, indistinct, low, small

[] adulterated, attenuated, diluted, insipid, tasteless, thin, watery

[] feeble, flimsy, frivolous, poor, sleazy, slight, trifling

[] futile, illogical, inconclusive, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, lame, unconvincing, unsatisfactory, unsupported, unsustained, vague, vain

[] unsafe, unsound, unsubstantial, untrustworthy

[] helpless, impotent, powerless

[] breakable, brittle, delicate, frangible

[] inconsiderable, puny, slender, slight, small

Beispiele:

[1]

[1] weak in Latin - schwach in Latein

Charakteristische Wortkombinationen:

weak point - schwacher Punkt, schwache Seite, Schwäche

Wortbildungen:

weaken - jemanden oder etwas schwächen

weakening - Abschwächung, Schwächung

weakkneed - feig

weakling - Schwächling

weakly - schwächlich

weakminded - schwachsinnig

weakness - Schwäche

weaksighted - schwachsichtig

weakspirited - kleinmütig