wimpy
- apathetic adj.
- bland adj.
- craven adj.
- fainthearted adj.
- feeble adj.
- frail adj.
- gutless adj.
- inconsequential adj.
- inconsequential/inconsiderable adj.
- incurious adj.
- irresolute adj.
- languid adj.
- languorous adj.
- lethargic adj.
- lymphatic adj.
- mild adj.
- stuporous adj.
- unpopular adj.
- unsure adj.
- weak adj.
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As a wimpy ectomorph, my temporary high-T status provided a validation I didn’t realize I was looking for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Where Forte’s wimpy Kevin is a send-up of human fragility, Cena’s Buddy has the shatterproof ego of the rooster Foghorn Leghorn, who also happens to be Acme’s CEO.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
It would be tragic if it weren’t so wimpy.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2025
At first people thought I was being a bit wimpy or that I just wanted the day off school.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
He looked uncertainly at the Yoo-hoo bottle before taking a wimpy sort of sip and shoving the bottle back my way.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Diesel, Johnson and Statham have insisted on counting blows in fights to make sure they don’t come off as wimpier than their counterparts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Think dinosaurs roared like in ‘Jurassic Park’? The truth, new research says, is a bit wimpier.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022
Solar Wind Stifles Mercury's Magnetic Field Ever since NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft zipped past Mercury in 1974, scientists have wondered why the planet's magnetic field is so much wimpier than expected.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 22, 2011
It’s true that a passive verb makes for a wimpier, more roundabout way of saying something.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Straight out of the box, it serves up a digitally young-ified Kurt Russell grinning along to the syrupy strains of “Brandy,” one of the wimpiest pop tunes of the 1970s.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2017
Now North had passed, which, especially given the favorable vulnerability, is at present leading the race for wimpiest bid of the year.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2015
Middle class is the wimpiest term in the lexicon of social taxonomy, meaning little more than not rich, not poor.
From Time Magazine Archive
