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. - 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. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - 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.