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weakling
CIDE DICTIONARY
weakling, n. [Weak + -ling.].
A weak or feeble creature. [1913 Webster]
"We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy." [1913 Webster]
weakling, a.
Weak; feeble. Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
weakling
Milquetoast, baby, big baby, blank cartridge, butt, castrato, chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat, drip, dud, dull tool, eunuch, faintly, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, gelding, gutless wonder, impotent, incompetent, invalid, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, mark, meek soul, milksop, misfit, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, shrinking violet, sissy, softling, softy, sop, sotto voce, sucker, waverer, weak sister, weakly, white feather, white liver, wobblerROGET THESAURUS
weakling
Weakness
N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.For further exploring for "weakling" in Webster Dictionary Online