Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
a weak timber; a weak rope
3
Limp, soft.
Word Origin
From Middle English weyk, wayk, weik, waik, from Old Norse veikr (“weak”), from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz (“weak, yielded, pliant, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, wind”).
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