weakly

Meanings

Adjective

• Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

Adverb

• With little strength or force.

Origin

• From weak + -ly; compare Old English wāclīċ, and Old Norse veikligr; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkaz.
• From Middle English weykly, equivalent to weak + -ly. Compare Old High German weihlīcho, Middle English wocliche, wokli, wacliche (both from Proto-Germanic *waikalīkō).