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WEAKLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: weaklier    , weakliest   

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

Example:

her body looked sapless

Synonyms:

debile; decrepit; feeble; infirm; rickety; sapless; weak; weakly

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

frail (physically weak)

 II. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree

Example:

he was weakly attracted to her

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

strongly (with strength or in a strong manner)

Pertainym:

weak (wanting in physical strength)

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 Context examples: 

Unlike traditional antipsychotic agents, it weakly blocks dopamine type 2 receptors.

(Clozapine, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes CDNA FLJ32212 fis, clone PLACE6003399, weakly similar to SPIDROIN 1 protein, is an imprinted gene that is only expressed from the maternal allele.

(H19 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, not beta-hemolytic, oxidase, urease, ornithine decarboxylase, and indole negative, phosphatase positive, reduces nitrate, does not hydrolyze esculin or acidify galactose, and slowly and weakly ferments carbohydrates.

(Pasteurella bettyae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile by one to eight flagella from multiple origins, oxidase and catalase negative, does not hydrolyze esculin, is stimulated from arginine, weakly reduces nitrate and produces acid from glycogen.

(Mobiluncus mulieris, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of CA IX and XII results in interference with ion exchange and pH in hypoxic tumor tissue and preventing chemoresistance to weakly basic antineoplastic agents.

(Indisulam, NCI Thesaurus)

"Sure, an' it's dizzy I am," he laughed weakly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This bacteria is nonmotile, oxidase and urease positive, weakly catalase positive, does not hydrolyze esculin and produces acid from glucose, lactose and xylose.

(Actinobacillus equuli, NCI Thesaurus)

Buproprion also weakly inhibits the neuronal re-uptake of dopamine.

(Bupropion, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonsporulating, urease and catalase negative, weakly indole positive, ferments mannose and raffinose, is resistant to penicillin G and may appear gram variable due to staining difficulty.

(Clostridium clostridioforme, NCI Thesaurus)

I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)