weak spot

1. 1.

   a place of especial vulnerability

   Synonymsweak partsoft spot

   Broaderweakness

   NarrowerAchilles' heeljugularunderbelly

Questions about weak spot

What does weak spot mean?

weak spot means "a place of especial vulnerability".

What is another word for weak spot?

Close synonyms include weak part, soft spot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is weak spot a common word?

weak spot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.