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Weakling vs Weakly - What's the difference?

weakling | weakly |

As adjectives the difference between weakling and weakly

is that weakling is weak, either physically, morally or mentally while weakly is frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

As a noun weakling

is a person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.

As an adverb weakly is

with little strength or force.

weakling

English

Adjective

(head)
  • weak, either physically, morally or mentally

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution
  • (figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
  • * Latimer
    • We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

    Synonyms

    * (person of weak character) sissy, walk-over

    Antonyms

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    References

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    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