Meaning

1 senses

  1. With little strength or force.

    сла́боslábo

More definitions
  • in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree

Examples

4 sentences

  1. She protested weakly, but ended up joining in with everyone else.

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  2. Miroslav asked Anna if she could eat and she nodded very weakly.

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  3. Vladimir breathed very weakly.

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  4. Bruce took the book weakly.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
with little strength or force:

Origin

From Middle English weykly, equivalent to weak + -ly (adverbial suffix). Compare Old High

From Middle English weykly, equivalent to weak + -ly (adverbial suffix). Compare Old High German weihlīcho (“weakly”), Middle English wocliche, wokli, wacliche (both from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkō).

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Forms

more weakly, most weakly
Comparativemore weakly Lesson
Superlativemost weakly

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms
strongly

Word family

5 related words
Relatedweak
Derivedultraweaklyweakly cardinalweakly contractibleweakly-typed

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
weakenB2weakerweaklingweaknessB1wealwealthA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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