What is another word for namby-pamby?
287 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ nˈambipˈambi], [ nˈambipˈambi], [ n_ˈa_m_b_i_p_ˈa_m_b_i]
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Similar words for namby-pamby:
- all (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- washy (adjective)
- insipid (noun)
- mama's boy (noun)
- milksop (noun)
- mother's boy (noun)
- namby-pamby (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- sissy (noun)
- wimp (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Namby-pamby:
adj.
• all (adjective) • Other relevant words: (adjective) • washy (adjective)n.
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- feeble,
- delicate,
- malnourished,
- vulnerable,
- sickly,
- enfeebled,
- infirm,
- unsteady.
- yellow belly,
- fraidy cat,
- jellyfish,
- jellyfishes,
- fraidy-cat,
- cry-baby,
- chicken liver,
- Pansies,
- fraidy-cats,
- momma's boy,
- pansy,
- lily liver,
- scaredy cat,
- wussy,
- wuss,
- chicken heart.
- weak.
Other synonyms:
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- watery.
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- bland.
- Euphuistic,
- unsatisfactory,
- wet,
- white-livered,
- scared,
- slop,
- jerry-built,
- light,
- half-baked,
- pushover,
- inept,
- baby,
- drab,
- limp-wristed,
- faint-hearted,
- nostomania,
- lifeless,
- chinless wonder,
- colorless,
- overprecise,
- soft,
- mushiness,
- tergiversating,
- cream puff,
- insignificant,
- ineffective,
- flabby,
- doubtful,
- doormat,
- effeminate,
- tearjerker,
- ambivalent,
- uninteresting,
- poltroon,
- bathetic,
- non-physical,
- timorous,
- sad sack,
- Chicken-hearted,
- Shattery,
- meek soul,
- hesitant,
- impotent,
- powerless,
- sticky,
- Puristic,
- passable,
- tolerable,
- twerp,
- lackluster,
- moderate,
- poor,
- cobwebby,
- exquisite,
- frail,
- sissified,
- modest,
- lame,
- caitiff,
- mollycoddle,
- gushing,
- Driveling,
- retiring,
- puny,
- unavailing,
- fair,
- lily-livered,
- spiritless,
- quitter,
- tear-jerking,
- jerry,
- dry,
- lightweight,
- schmaltzy,
- Vitelline,
- pantywaist,
- meek,
- romanticism,
- papery,
- fair to middling,
- indifferent,
- unconvincing,
- maudlinness,
- lukewarm,
- precious,
- unmanful,
- slight,
- inane,
- wimpy,
- yellow,
- pampered,
- vacuous,
- flimsy,
- insubstantial,
- soap opera,
- feckless,
- nostalgic,
- invertebrate,
- bathos,
- of a kind,
- chicken,
- boring,
- nostalgia,
- overnice,
- weak-kneed,
- wispy,
- schnook,
- goo,
- inadequate,
- sleazy,
- dastard,
- nancy,
- romantic,
- effete,
- meagre,
- euphemistic,
- uncertain,
- dreary,
- sop,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- foolish,
- Precieuse,
- wimpish,
- fragile,
- mushy,
- coward,
- craven,
- Effet,
- nonentity,
- paltry,
- crybaby,
- vacillating,
- so-so,
- middling,
- unassertive,
- characterless,
- lacklustre,
- Precisian,
- of two minds,
- betwixt and between,
- hesitating,
- limp,
- sissy,
- frightened,
- shlemiel,
- Half-hearted,
- weak sister,
- softie,
- gimcrack,
- undecided,
- mawkishness,
- goody-goody,
- unmanly,
- uninspiring,
- colourless,
- slush,
- breakable,
- dry-as-dust,
- medium,
- sapless,
- afraid,
- schlemiel,
- incompetent,
- sob story,
- gooey,
- sentiment,
- beery,
- fearful,
- respectable,
- twirp,
- dull,
- cloyingness,
- indecisive,
- shilly-shallying,
- Sentimentalism,
- oversentimental,
- Gossamery,
- cloying,
- sappy,
- teary,
- milquetoast,
- cheap-jack,
- flat,
- fluctuating,
- sentimentalized,
- wavering,
- pedantic,
- insufficient,
- unsubstantial,
- sloppiness,
- mush,
- loser,
- dainty,
- milk-and-water,
- tedious,
- chicken-livered,
- frangible,
- maudlin,
- sentimentality,
- mawkish,
- yellow-bellied,
- pusillanimous,
- banal,
- mincing,
- brittle,
- thin,
- shoddy,
- tacky,
- overrefined,
- Softling,
- fairish,
- sloppy,
- crumbly,
- ineffectual,
- mediocre,
- reed,
- wimp,
- bleeding heart,
- timid,
- womanish,
- sweetness and light,
- nebbish,
- elegant,
- uninspired,
- formalistic,
- dastardly,
- mummy's boy.
How to use "Namby-pamby" in context?
Namby-pamby is a term often used to describe people who are overly soft and carefree. They often lack ambition and are content with living a simple life. This term is often used to describe people who are not willing to take risks or do anything that is difficult.
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