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Synonyms for weak

Synonyms for weak: light, faint and feeble. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

3 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adjective

The 3 synonyms for weak

Interchangeable with weak in this sense

Audited under weak's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one weak carries in that sense.

lightadjective, in the sense "pronounced with little or no stress"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name weak as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

faintfaint is an adjective in the sense "deficient in magnitude"
feeblefeeble is an adjective in the sense "lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality"

The first group is filed under weak's own sense. The second reach weak from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.

The senseadjectiveTier 1, Foothills

pronounced with little or no stress

A weak stress on the second syllable.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

light

Same sentence, swapped: A light stress on the second syllable.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where weak stands in the sentence above.

imperfect
incredible
confused

Where weak turns up in the game

weak is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play weak

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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