weakly
adj/ˈwiːkli/
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”).
Definitions
Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution
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.
With little strength or force.
- The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA