Word Meanings - WISHY-WASHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own. A. Trollope.

Related words: (words related to WISHY-WASHY)

• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• MINDLESS
  1. Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking. 2. Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.
• WASHY
  1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton. 2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely
• TROLLOPEE
  A kind of loose dress for women. Goldsmith.
• MINDER
  1. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom. 2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. Dickens.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STRENGTH
  1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• WISHY-WASHY
  A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• STRENGTHNER
  See STRENGTHENER
• MINDED
  Disposed; inclined; having a mind. Joseph... was minded to put her away privily. Matt. i. 19. If men were minded to live virtuously. Tillotson. Note: Minded is much used in composition; as, high-minded, feeble- minded, sober-minded, double-minded.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• HARDLY
  1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden. 2. Unwillingly; grudgingly. The House of Peers gave so hardly theiMilton. 3. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly. Hardly shall you one so bad,
• STRENGTHY
  Having strength; strong.
• MIND
  1. To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note. "Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• REMIND
  To put in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of . When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.
• EVENMINDED
  Having equanimity.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
• HIGH-MINDEDNESS
  The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
• EAR-MINDED
  Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
  See ZAMINDARY
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• ABLE-MINDED
  Having much intellectual power. -- A`ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.