0 someone who is weak, either physically or in character:
It would need more than a few exercises to turn a seven-stone weakling into a heavyweight boxer.
1 someone who is weak, either physically or in character:
Those who have had anything to do with underground work will know that it is not work that the weakling usually stands for long.
Disabled men and necessarily weakling children are herded in damp basements.
Nobody ever charged me with being a weakling.
All the enemies of progress are there—weaklings, sleek, smug, comfortable, self-important individuals.
He has shown himself to be the weakling that he was when we had that debate.
They are not weaklings, because the weaklings go to the wall.
They had their failures, just as we had, although they never published them, and this is the way they kept the weaklings to their duty.
A man who over-estimates his strength becomes a weakling.