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weakly

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈwiːkli/

Definition of weakly

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
    “I lay in weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me.”
    “I'd always been but weakly, / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn.”
    “"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.”
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adj

  1. Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
    “I lay in weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me.”
    “I'd always been but weakly, / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn.”
    “"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.”

adv

  1. With little strength or force.
    “The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.”

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Etymology

From Old English wāclīċe (“weakly”), equivalent to weak + -ly (adjectival suffix); compare Old English wāclīċ (“weak; ignoble; mean”), and Old Norse veikligr (“weakly; sick”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkaz (“weakly; weak”).

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