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weaker

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈwiːkə//
  • United States//ˈwikɚ//

Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the latter entails the former, but the former does not entail the latter.

adjective

  1. 1

    Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the latter entails the former, but the former does not entail the latter.

  2. 2

    Also a form of weakcomparative form of weak: more weak

    Yes, there were hundreds of companies in existence, but a form of natural selection was taking place. Weaker companies were swallowed up by larger ones.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).