weakling

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.
    — “Mon Dieu!” he soliloquized, “but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess—money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal bound down by silly customs that make them slaves to their unhappy lot while firm in the belief that they be the lords of creation enjoying the only real pleasures of existence.
  2. A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength. figuratively
    — c.1551, Hugh Latimer, a sermon in Lincolnshire We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
形容词 adj.
  1. weak, either physically, morally or mentally

词形变化

weaklings plural

词汇关系

近义词
pushover sissy weenie
反义词
strongling

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English weak
English -ling
English weakling
From weak + -ling.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English weak
English -ling
English weakling
From weak + -ling.
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