weakly

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
副词 adv.
  1. With little strength or force.
    — The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.

词形变化

weaklier comparative weakliest superlative more weakly comparative most weakly superlative

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English weykly, equivalent to weak + -ly (adverbial suffix). Compare Old High German weihlīcho (“weakly”), Middle English wocliche, wokli, wacliche (both from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkō).
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