weakly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree

   weakly agreed to a compromise

2. 2
   adj

   Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

   I lay in weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me.

3. 3
   adv

   With little strength or force.

   The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.

4. 4
   adj

   lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

Etymology

From Old English wāclīċe (“weakly”), equivalent to weak + -ly (adjectival suffix); compare Old English wāclīċ (“weak; ignoble; mean”), and Old Norse veikligr (“weakly; sick”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkaz (“weakly; weak”).