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Weakish
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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World English Dictionary
| weak (wiːk) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking in physical or mental strength or force; frail or feeble |
| 2. | liable to yield, break, or give way: a weak link in a chain |
| 3. | lacking in resolution or firmness of character |
| 4. | lacking strength, power, or intensity: a weak voice |
| 5. | lacking strength in a particular part: a team weak in defence |
| 6. | a. not functioning as well as normal: weak eyes |
| b. easily upset: a weak stomach | |
| 7. | lacking in conviction, persuasiveness, etc: a weak argument |
| 8. | lacking in political or strategic strength: a weak state |
| 9. | lacking the usual, full, or desirable strength of flavour: weak tea |
| 10. | grammar |
| a. denoting or belonging to a class of verbs, in certain languages including the Germanic languages, whose conjugation relies on inflectional endings rather than internal vowel gradation, as look, looks, looking, looked | |
| b. Compare strong belonging to any part-of-speech class, in any of various languages, whose inflections follow the more regular of two possible patterns | |
| 11. | (of a syllable) not accented or stressed |
| 12. | Compare rich (of a fuel-air mixture) containing a relatively low proportion of fuel |
| 13. | photog having low density or contrast; thin |
| 14. | (of an industry, market, currency, securities, etc) falling in price or characterized by falling prices |
| [Old English wāc soft, miserable; related to Old Saxon wēk, Old High German weih, Old Norse veikr] | |
| 'weakish | |
| —adj | |
| 'weakishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'weakishness | |
| —n | |
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