Definitions Everyone Should Know. Installment I

meek

-adjective, -er, -est.

1. humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.

2. overly submissive or compliant; spiritless; tame.

3. obsolete . gentle; kind.



-Synonyms

1. forbearing; yeilding; unassuming; pacific, calm, soft. See gentle.



weak

-adjective, -er, -est.

1. not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.

2. lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm: a weak old man; weak eyes.

3. not having much political strength, governing power, or authority: a weak nation; a weak ruler.

4. lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate: weak sunlight; a weak wind.

5. lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness: a weak reply to the charges; one of the author's weakest novels.

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-Synonyms

1. breakable, delicate. 2. senile, sickly, unwell, invalid. WEAK, DECREPIT, FEEBLE, WEAKLY imply a lack of strength or of good health. WEAK mans not physically strong, because of extreme youth, old age, illness, etc.: weak after an attack of fever. DECREPIT means old and broken in health to a marked degree: decrepit and barely able to walk. FEEBLE denotes much the same as WEAK, but connotes being pitiable or inferior: feeble and almost senile. WEAKLY suggests a long-standing sickly condition, a state of chronic bad health: A weakly child may become a strong adult. 3. ineffective. 4. unsound, ineffective, inadequatte, illogical, inconclusive, unsustained, unsatisfactory, lame vague. 5. unintelligent, simple, foolish, stupid, senseless, silly. 6. vacillating, wavering, unstable, irresolute, fluctuating, undecided weak-kneed. 7. slender, slim, inconsiderable, flimsy, poor, trifling, trivial. 8. wanting, short, lacking.



-Antonyms

1. strong.


Please, I beg of you, do not confuse the two.

-Octavian