Skip to content
Vinony

weakly

adverb

  1. without strength
L13314 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L342470 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈwiːkli/

adj

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”).

  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.”

adv

Etymology: From Middle English weykly, equivalent to weak + -ly (adverbial suffix). Compare Old High German weihlīcho (“weakly”), Middle English wocliche, wokli, wacliche (both from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkō).

  1. With little strength or force.

    “The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.”