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Lightly vs Weakly - What's the difference?

lightly | weakly | Synonyms |

Lightly is a synonym of weakly.


As adverbs the difference between lightly and weakly

is that lightly is in a light manner while weakly is with little strength or force.

As an adjective weakly is

frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

lightly

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • In a light manner.
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  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

    • Derived terms

    * take lightly

    weakly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
  • * 1885', I lay in '''weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18
  • * 1889', I'd always been but ' weakly , / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • *:"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With little strength or force