adj.
    - lacking physical strength and energy.
 - liable to break or give way under pressure. 
▸not convincing or forceful.
 ▸not secure, stable, or firmly established.
 ▸(of prices or a market) having a downward tendency.
 - lacking power, influence, or ability. 
▸lacking intensity.
 ▸(of a liquid or solution) heavily diluted.
 ▸(of features) not strongly marked.
 ▸(of a syllable) unstressed.
 - Grammar  denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by addition of a suffix (in English, typically -ed).
 
 
  Phrase
  
    - the weaker sex
 dated women regarded collectively.  - weak at the knees
 helpless with emotion. 
   
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  OE wāc ‘pliant, of little worth’, ‘not steadfast’, reinforced in ME by ON veikr, from a Gmc base meaning ‘yield, give way’.