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Definition: Wishy-washy |
Wishy-washyAdjective1. Weak in willpower. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wishy-washy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Wishy-washy A reduplication of washy. Very thin, weak, and poor; wanting in substance or body. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Wishy-washySynonyms: namby-pamby (adj), spineless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feebleness | Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight. |
Insipidity | Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted. |
Unimportance | Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wishy-washy |
| English words defined with "wishy-washy": chicken, crybaby ♦ wimp. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Wishy-washy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wishy-washy" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "wishy-washy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανούσιος (dull, insipid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | eig (decease, prosaic, stale, unexciting, vapid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ishy-washyway невыразительный (expressionless, featureless, feeble, inexpressive, null, toneless, unexpressive, unimpressive), бесхарактерный (boneless, gutless, molluscous, wimpish), бледный (ashy, ashy-gray, chalky, colorless, colourless, feeble, grey, light, lurid, mealy, pale, pallid, paly, sallow, wan, washy, whey-faced). (various references) nhạt (delicate, female, vapid, washy, weak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-h-i-s-s-w-w-y-y" | |
-4 letters: swishy. | |
-5 letters: hissy, shahs, shaws, shays, swash, sways, swish, washy, whish, wisha. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 69 73 68 79 2D 77 61 73 68 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01110011 01101000 01111001 00101101 01110111 01100001 01110011 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i s h y - w a s h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 0073 0068 0079 002D 0077 0061 0073 0068 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5775857491158967857491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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