Weakly

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwiːkli/
• Rhymes: -iːk.li
• Homophones: weekly

Origin

weak + -ly

Full definition of weakly

Adjective

1. Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
• 1885, I lay in weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18
• 1889, I'd always been but weakly,
  And my baby was just born;
  A neighbour minded her by day,
  I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
• 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.

Adverb

1. With little strength or force