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Synonyms for weakly
ˈwik liweak·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weaklyadverb
lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
"a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
Synonyms:
weak, watery, infirm, unaccented, washy, shaky, debile, rickety, woebegone, lame, rachitic, nerveless, run-down, wonky, imperfect, creaky, faint, frail, decrepit, light, fallible, flea-bitten, wobbly, feeble, derelict, saplessweaklyadverb
in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree
"weakly agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly attracted to her"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
weaklyadjective
Synonyms:
feeble, languid, weak, not strong
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#402 | low | |
#613 | light | |
#2643 | slightly | |
#4981 | weak | |
#10329 | poorly | |
#13785 | lame | |
#15135 | faint | |
#18971 | loosely | |
#21090 | imperfect | |
#21801 | weakly | |
#24703 | mildly | |
#29558 | marginally | |
#30673 | shaky | |
#31313 | feeble | |
#32523 | frail | |
#32769 | thinly | |
#34653 | watery | |
#43315 | sparsely | |
#44435 | derelict | |
#47593 | faintly | |
#49188 | dimly | |
#50319 | wobbly | |
#58852 | infirm | |
#70794 | decrepit | |
#80235 | fallible | |
#81924 | rickety | |
#87233 | wonky | |
#94903 | washy | |
#101223 | creaky | |
#170675 | shallowly | |
#232264 | unaccented | |
#271548 | debile | |
#281217 | nerveless | |
#295809 | woebegone |
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For example, in India and Pakistan, to some extent, there are building codes in place but they are very weakly implemented. You see construction going on, on the sides of landslide-prone mountains or in flood plains, in theory, there's urban planning.
The Southwest monsoon does have a relationship to ENSO, such that La Niña conditions tend to weakly favor wetter and earlier monsoons.
Off the bat, I knew I hit it well, but the ball just kept carrying, i was fortunate enough to get it over the fence. The thought process behind that at-bat was the at-bat before I chased an offspeed pitch and hit it weakly to first base. My goal was just basically let the ball get deep, let it travel and try to stay up the middle as best I could.
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Translations for weakly
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- dèbilmentCatalan, Valencian
- faiblementFrench
- słaboPolish
- сла́боRussian
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