weak-headed

[week-hed-id]

adjective

1. easily intoxicated by alcoholic beverages.

2. prone to dizziness or giddiness.

3. weak-minded.

Other Word Forms

• weak-headedly adverb
• weak-headedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of weak-headed¹

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

I’ve seen this kind of weak-headed apologia over and over on the Internet.

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It may mean, that not being a strong-headed man, he necessarily belonged to the other category, and was a weak-headed man.

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This the youth promised to do, and our friend Robert congratulated himself upon his success in saving his well-meaning but rather weak-headed cousin from certain ruin.

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She cared for me—that is certain, but some reports when I was about nineteen to the effect that I was raising the devil, and had led a weak-headed fellow astray with me, seemed to give the girl a permanent twist against me.

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Weak-headed nervousness to believe in such a thing!

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