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]
Word Net
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]Moby Thesaurus
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 resistancePronunciation
/ˈwiːkli/Adjective
- Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
- 1885: I lay in weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18
- 1889: I'd always been but weakly, / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’