Usually means: Person lacking physical strength, resilience.
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  1. weakling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. weakling: Merriam-Webster
  3. weakling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. weakling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. weakling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. weakling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Weakling, weakling: Wordnik
  8. weakling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. weakling: Wiktionary
  10. weakling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. weakling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. weakling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. weakling: Dictionary.com
  14. weakling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. weakling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Weakling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Weakling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. weakling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. weakling: Rhymezone
  20. Weakling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. weakling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. weakling: FreeDictionary.org
  23. weakling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. weakling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weakling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (weakling)

▸ noun:  A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
▸ adjective:  weak, either physically, morally or mentally

Similar:
doormat, feebling, faintling, enfeebler, whimling, faint of heart, death warmed up, witherling, namby-pamby, weak sore, more...

Opposite:
strongman, strongwoman, strongperson

Types:
timid, meek, spineless, feeble, frail, fragile, vulnerable, delicate, more...

Adjectives:
pound, such, poor, physical, moral, little, puny, miserable, effeminate, mental, mere


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Similar:
doormat, feebling, faintling, enfeebler, whimling, faint of heart, death warmed up, witherling, namby-pamby, weak sore, more...

Opposite:
strongman, strongwoman, strongperson

Types:
timid, meek, spineless, feeble, frail, fragile, vulnerable, delicate, more...

Adjectives:
pound, such, poor, physical, moral, little, puny, miserable, effeminate, mental, mere



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