Weakly

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weakly \Weak"ly\, adv.
     In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Weakly \Weak"ly\, a. [Compar. {Weaklier}; superl. {Weakliest}.]
     Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly
     woman; a man of a weakly constitution.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  weakly
       adj : lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman";
             "her body looked sapless" [syn: {decrepit}, {debile}, {feeble},
              {infirm}, {sapless}, {weak}]
       adv : in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; "weakly
             agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was
             weakly attracted to her" [ant: {strongly}]
       [also: {weakliest}, {weaklier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "weakly":
     a bit, a la sourdine, a little, anemic, asthenic, barely,
     bloodless, by a hair, by an ace, cachectic, chicken, cowardly,
     daintily, debilitated, decrepit, delicately, dimly, drained,
     drooping, droopy, dull, effeminately, effete, enervated, etiolated,
     ever so little, exhausted, exiguously, failing, faint, faintish,
     faintly, feeble, feebly, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, floppy, fragile,
     frail, gently, gone, gutless, hardly, healthless, hushedly,
     imbecile, imperfectly, impotent, in poor health, inappreciably,
     inconsequentially, infirm, infirmly, insignificantly,
     insubstantial, invalid, just a bit, languid, languishing,
     languorous, languorously, lightly, limber, limp, listless,
     listlessly, little, low, lustless, marrowless, meagerly, minimally,
     minutely, moribund, negligibly, nerveless, not hardly, only just,
     pale, peaked, peaky, pianissimo, piano, pithless, pooped,
     powerless, reduced, reduced in health, rubbery, run-down, sapless,
     scantily, scarcely, shakily, sickly, sinewless, slack, slightly,
     soft, softly, sordamente, sordo, spineless, strengthless,
     strengthlessly, subduedly, tant soit peu, teeteringly, totteringly,
     triflingly, unhardened, unhealthy, unnerved, unsound, unsoundly,
     unsteadily, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsubstantially,
     valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak, weakened,
     with low resistance