weakly
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1.0
- adverb
- /ˈwiːkli/
:
débilmente
- Paint peels from the walls; illumination gleams weakly down from the occasional naked neon tube.
- very weakly
- only weakly
- weakly lit
You want to prop up a very weakly positioned Russia.
- You want to prop up a very weakly positioned Russia.
- We're going to do the problem of a weakly interacting gas.
- Third, dark matter interacts weakly both with itself and with other types of matter.
- You can build devices to see neutrinos and the, these are, you know, weakly interacting particles.
- Why are we aligning with a country that is so weakly positioned?
- Machos and Wimps are candidates for the dark matter, and those stand for weakly interacting massive particles.
- So that's transfer learning, OK, or weakly supervised transfer learning.
- Now then what they did was they they weakly measured the photons in both beams, all right?
Examples
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Knowledge of environmental problems seemed to be weakly developed in many of the students.
Academic text (1999) -
Do not include objectives that are only weakly related to your regular curriculum or not related at all.
Academic text (1998) -
According to our definition, only 1% of the students had a weakly to very weakly developed negative environmental attitude.
Academic text (1999) -
Despite the contributions cited above, many prominent themes and topics of drug geographies remain weakly explored.
Academic text (2013) -
Her flailing hands fluttered weakly, and her straining throat made a faint rasping noise.
Fiction book (1991) -
Conventional wisdom holds that OPEC is a weakly functioning cartel with non-OPEC producers forming a "competitive fringe."
Academic text (1991) -
Bradley and Millington (2008) found that coca cultivation in Bolivia was only weakly related to deforestation.
Academic text (2013) -
"I don't know whether it's right," I said weakly, "but at least I believe it's normal."
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Maseru, Lesotho - An infant just 20 days old cried weakly behind an oxygen mask.
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A moment later, Don Damian sighed weakly and moved his head on the pillow.
Synonyms
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3.2
With little feeling or energy
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3.9
In a weak way that shows little energy
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4.4
In a weak, soft way that has no stiffness
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5.6
In a weak way that does not seem believable
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8.8
In a weak, pale way that shows little energy
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6.6
Move in a limp way, without strength or firmness
In a limp, weak way that is not firm
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A heavy particle that hardly interacts with normal matter and may make up dark matter in space
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Weakly begins with weak, from an old English word meaning 'not strong', and the ending -ly turns it into a word that describes how something is done. You can see the same root in weakness and weaken, so weakly means doing something in a 'not strong' or low-energy way.