Unsound and Weak

Unsound

Unsound adjective - Not using or following good reasoning.
Usage example: it is clearly unsound to argue that just because a scientific explanation for that phenomenon does not currently exist, no such explanation is possible

Weak is a synonym for unsound in flimsy topic. In some cases you can use "Weak" instead an adjective "Unsound", when it comes to topics like strong, untenable.

Nearby Words: unsounded, unsoundly

Weak

Weak adjective - Lacking bodily strength.
Usage example: the little boy was simply too weak to lift the box

Unsound is a synonym for weak in strong topic. You can use "Unsound" instead an adjective "Weak", if it concerns topics such as flimsy, not strong.

Both words in one sentence

  • Ailnoth in The Raven in the Foregate is a competent clerk, but when made a village confessor his Holier Than Thou attitude imperils the flock and drives a parishioner to suicide after he publicly bars her on the (doctrinally unsound) grounds that if the flesh was weak then the spirit was unwilling.
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