Washy

Definitions: Washy

Washy

Adjective

1. Lacking strength or vigor; "a washy handshake"; "washy prose".

2. Overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea".

3. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "washy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Note: Washy \Wash"y\, adjective. [From Wash.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Washy

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.

Unmeaningness

Trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.

Weakness

Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.

Crosswords: Washy

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "washy": washy horse ♦ washy soup ♦ washy tea ♦ wishy washy. Additional references.

Ending with "washy": wishy-washy.

Albanian

i zbardhylët (wishy washy), i ujshëm (liquid, watery), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy), e shpëlarë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير العرق, ‏مهو رقيق الماء, ‏مترهل (flabby, flaccid, limp, loppy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), рядък (close, fine, infrequent, occasional, one in a thousand, rare, recherche, singular, sparse, thin, uncommon), разводнен (dilute, diluted, thin, watered, watery, wishy washy), блудкав (insipid, mawkish, milk and water, namby-pamby, sapless, unappetizing), блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, dim, faint, lunar, pale, pallid, paly, thin, wan, watery), измит. (various references)

Czech

řídký (far between, few and far between, infrequent, rare, runny, scarce, sparse, tenuous, thin). (various references)

French

sans aucune personnalité (wishy washy), falot (wishy washy), fade (watery, wishy washy), délavé (washed out, wishy washy). (various references)

German

verwässert (milk and water). (various references)

Greek 

ξεθωριασμένοσ (bleached, discolored, discoloured, faded, off white, washed out), νερωμένοσ (wishy washy), αραιόσ (rare, sparse, tenuous, thin), αδύνατοσ (feeble, flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, weak). (various references)

Hebrew 

מימי (aquatic, aqueous, watery), �"�"וי (discoloration, faded, fading, matte, washed out). (various references)

Hungarian

híg (dilute, extenuate, liquid, tempered, tenuous, thin, to grout, weak). (various references)

Indonesian

encer (aqueous, liquid, quick, smart, thin, weak). (various references)

Italian

allungato (watered). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashyway

Portuguese

sem cor (colorless, colourless, pale, Pall, pallidness, paly, pasty faced, tintless, wan), insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigidity, halfback, insipid, jejune, mawseed, milk and water, muzzy, pointless, sapless, savorless, savourless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery, wishy washy), deslavado (washed out), desbotado (dingy, faded, foxy, lacklustre, rusty, washed out, withered), aguado (dilute, sloppy, watered, watery, weak, wishy washy). (various references)

Romanian

vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague), spãlãcit (colorless, colourless, dim, dull, pale, wan, washed out), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, weak, weakly), fãrã putere (adynamic, groggy, powerless, weakly), diluat (attenuate, diluted, discursive, weak), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, wrongheaded), şters (colorless, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, Gray, grey, low-pitched, pale, sad, wan, wiped, wiping), apos (aqueous, watery). (various references)

Russian 

водянистый (serous, thin, watery, weak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, weak). (various references)

Spanish

soso (dull, flavorless, flavourless, halfbaked, insipid, namby-pamby, savorless, savourless, tasteless, tastelessly, troubled, undistinctive, undynamic, wishy washy), aguado (adulteration, thin, watered, watery). (various references)

Swedish

vattnig (serous, watery), vattnad, blaskig (watery, wishy washy). (various references)

Turkish

sulu (aqueous, enhydrous, hydrated, hydrous, juicy, lush, moist, Pappy, ripe, runny, sassy, saucily, saucy, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, soft, soupy, succulent, watery, weak, wet), soluk (ashy, breath, breathing, cadaverous, colorless, colourless, dull, exhalation, faded, faint, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, sick, sickly, wan, watery), solmuş (discolored, discoloured, etiolated, faded, off color, off colour, overblown, rusty, washed out, withered), kuvvetsiz (atonic, feeble, sinewless, strengthless, weak), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, run down, senile, sluggish, very tired, weak, weakly, wonky). (various references)

Ukranian 

розведений (dilute, watered), кволий (ailing, bedrid, crocky, dicky, feeble, fey, languid, nerveless, powerless, puny, ramshackle, silly, spindly, weakly), водянистий (aqueous, aquose, milk and water, sloppy, soupy, waterish, watery, wishy washy), безбарвний (bald, colorless, colourless, platitudinous, watery, waxen, white), бляклий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô vị nhạt, nhạt nhẽo; lòng thòng, nhạt (delicate, female, vapid, weak, wishy-washy), loãng. (various references)

Misspellings

"Washy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nashy, wahaya, Wahhh, waspy, wasy, wazy, wishy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ashy, haws, hays, shaw, shay, sway, wash, ways, whys, yaws.

-2 letters: ash, ays, has, haw, hay, saw, say, sha, shy, was, way, wha, why, yah, yaw.

-3 letters: ah, as, aw, ay, ha, sh, ya.

+2 letters: eyewash, fishway, hawkeys, haymows, shadowy, shipway, swarthy, washday, whydahs.

+3 letters: archways, fishways, hallways, haywards, haywires, headways, highways, pathways, shipways, thruways, washdays, whiprays.

+4 letters: anywheres, eyewashes, gawkishly, hatchways, hawkishly, hereaways, hideaways, mawkishly, seaworthy, shadowily, shallowly, waggishly, waspishly, watcheyes, wheyfaces.

+5 letters: bawdyhouse, dwarfishly, jayhawkers, lengthways, shantytown, switchyard, throwaways, womanishly.

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