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weakly

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?wi?kli/
  • Rhymes: -i?k.li
  • Homophone: weekly

Etymology 1

From weak +? -ly; compare Old English w?cl?? (weak; ignoble; mean), and Old Norse veikligr (weakly; sick); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waikal?kaz (weakly; weak).

Adjective

weakly (comparative weaklier, superlative weakliest)

  1. Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English weykly, equivalent to weak +? -ly. Compare Old High German weihl?cho (weakly), Middle English wocliche, wokli, wacliche (both from Proto-Germanic *waikal?k?).

Adverb

weakly (comparative more weakly, superlative most weakly)

  1. With little strength or force.
Derived terms
Translations

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faintly

English

Etymology

From Middle English feintli, feintliche, equivalent to faint +? -ly.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fe?ntli/

Adverb

faintly

  1. In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
    • So this was my future home, I thought! [] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Translations

Anagrams

  • antifly

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