English Dictionary

weak-handed

形容詞

広義 廃用

Having or involving hands that are weak or infirm. / (by extension) Weak; lacking courage and strength. / (obsolete) Understaffed / (obsolete) Poor; impoverished.

日本語の意味

身体的に手が弱い、手が不自由な / 気力や勇気、体力を欠いて弱々しい / （古語的）人手が不足している、十分な人員がない / （古語的）貧しい、財政的に困窮している

The weak-handed patient struggled to button his shirt.

手の力が弱い患者はシャツのボタンを留めるのに苦労した。

意味（1）

Having or involving hands that are weak or infirm.

He also had a son named Dave who thought milking a pretty tough job, and who imagined he was getting weak-handed and on the way to milker's paralysis.

意味（2）

(by extension) Weak; lacking courage and strength.

It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Understaffed

With this heroic resolution, he put himself into the hands of the Zamorin with a retinue of only twelve men, being unwilling to leave the ships weak-handed for the sake of an unavailing and empty parade of attendance.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Poor; impoverished.

Should he be weak-handed (poor), he is compelled to be content with what is termed girdling, which consists in cutting the bark, thereby, of course, killing the trees, and he afterwards clears away the underwood, which is seldom considerable.

more weak-handed （ comparative ）

most weak-handed （ superlative ）