Weakly \Weak"ly\, adv.
In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "weakly":
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 resistance
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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