Weak-willed means unable to hold to a decision under pressure. A weak-willed compromise.
It is a harsher judgement than it sounds, since it blames character rather than circumstance. Weak-willed is applied to other people's failures and never to one's own.
1adjectiveweak-willedUnable to hold to a decision under pressure.
“He was called weak-willed by people who had not been in the room.”
weak-willed is a quality.
Weak plus willed, recorded from the 1880s.
Originated 1880–85.
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