pushover
Plural: pushovers
Noun
- A person or thing easily defeated, manipulated, or persuaded.
- someone who is easily taken advantage of
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.
- Someone who is easy to push around and to take advantage of; someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied without defending or standing up for themselves.
- Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.
Examples
- He thought his opponent was a PUSHOVER until they played a surprise bingo.
- I'm a pushover when it comes to buying new kitchen gadgets.
Origin / Etymology
A deverbal from push over. First use appears c. 1891 in the Galveston Daily News.
Synonyms
breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover, little girl, milksop, mollusc, nestle-cock, nose of wax, softy, wuss
Scrabble Score: 16
pushover: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpushover: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pushover: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary