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Definition of wishy-washy in English: wishy-washyadjective ˈwɪʃɪwɒʃi 1(of drink or liquid food) weak; watery. Example sentencesExamples - Before moving on, I drink a cup of tepid wishy-washy Amsterdam espresso tasting and smelling of unclean canal water, with ‘Sally’, my obnoxious Salisbury suitcase, parked at my feet.
Synonyms watery, weak, watered down, thin tasteless, flavourless, insipid 2Feeble or insipid in quality or character. Example sentencesExamples - Although each character's storyline is wrapped up, the climax is wishy-washy.
- It's almost like my character is so wishy-washy that nobody believes in what I do.
- The average wishy-washy middle-class liberal like myself finds herself thrashing desperately between her worthy political world view of them as victims and sheer annoyance at their failure to seize their chances.
- This is not the wishy-washy spiritualism that insists that it does not matter what you believe so long as you believe in something.
- So my resultant thinking is the usual liberal wishy-washy leftiness which tries to be fair to both sides.
Synonyms feeble, ineffectual, weak, vapid, milk-and-water, effete, spineless, limp, limp-wristed, namby-pamby, half-hearted, spiritless, irresolute, indecisive informal wet, pathetic, weak-kneed British informal half-arsed pale, insipid pallid, wan, sickly
Origin Early 18th century: reduplication of washy. pell-mell from Late Middle English: People like words that combine two almost identical forms, like helter-skelter (late 16th century), mishmash (Late Middle English), namby-pamby, and wishy-washy (late 17th century)—and pell-mell. Its second element represents a form of French mesler ‘to mix’ (related to medley). The first part might be from pelle ‘shovel’, giving the sense ‘mixed together with a shovel’, but the simple love of rhyme may be the only explanation needed.
Definition of wishy-washy in US English: wishy-washyadjective 1(of drink or liquid food such as soup) weak; watery. Example sentencesExamples - Before moving on, I drink a cup of tepid wishy-washy Amsterdam espresso tasting and smelling of unclean canal water, with ‘Sally’, my obnoxious Salisbury suitcase, parked at my feet.
Synonyms watery, weak, watered down, thin - 1.1 Feeble or insipid in quality or character; lacking strength or boldness.
Example sentencesExamples - So my resultant thinking is the usual liberal wishy-washy leftiness which tries to be fair to both sides.
- This is not the wishy-washy spiritualism that insists that it does not matter what you believe so long as you believe in something.
- The average wishy-washy middle-class liberal like myself finds herself thrashing desperately between her worthy political world view of them as victims and sheer annoyance at their failure to seize their chances.
- It's almost like my character is so wishy-washy that nobody believes in what I do.
- Although each character's storyline is wrapped up, the climax is wishy-washy.
Synonyms feeble, ineffectual, weak, vapid, milk-and-water, effete, spineless, limp, limp-wristed, namby-pamby, half-hearted, spiritless, irresolute, indecisive pale, insipid
Origin Early 18th century: reduplication of washy. |