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Namby-pamby Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Namby-pamby? [n] an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental [adj] weak in willpower Synonyms \| Synonyms for Namby-pamby: spineless \| weak \| wishy-washy Related Terms \| Find terms related to Namby-pamby: baby \| banal \| bathetic \| bathos \| beery \| betwixt and between \| big baby \| bland \| bleeding heart \| breakable \| brittle \| cheap-jack \| chicken \| cloying \| cloyingness \| cobwebby \| crumbly \| crybaby \| dainty \| delicate \| delicately weak \| doormat \| driveling \| dull \| dull tool \| effeminate \| elegant \| euphemistic \| euphuistic \| exquisite \| fair \| fair to middling \| fairish \| flat \| flimsy \| formalistic \| fragile \| frail \| frangible \| gimcrack \| gimcracky \| goo \| goody good-good \| goody-goody \| gooey \| gossamery \| gushing \| gutless wonder \| hearts-and-flowers \| inane \| indifferent \| innocuous \| insipid \| invertebrate \| jejune \| jellyfish \| jerry \| jerry-built \| lackluster \| light \| lightweight \| maudlin \| maudlinness \| mawkish \| mawkishness \| mediocre \| medium \| meek soul \| middling \| milk-and-water \| milksop \| Milquetoast \| mincing \| moderate \| modest \| mollycoddle \| mush \| mushiness \| mushy \| namby-pambyism \| namby-pambyness \| nebbish \| nonentity \| nostalgia \| nostalgic \| nostomania \| nostomanic \| of a kind \| of a sort \| of sorts \| overnice \| overprecise \| overrefined \| oversentimental \| oversentimentalism \| oversentimentality \| oversentimentalized \| pansy \| pantywaist \| papery \| passable \| pasteboardy \| pedantic \| precieuse \| precious \| precisian \| precisianistic \| precisionistic \| puny \| puristic \| pushover \| respectable \| romantic \| romanticism \| sad sack \| sapless \| sappy \| sentiment \| sentimental \| sentimentalism \| sentimentality \| sentimentalized \| shattery \| simpering \| sissified \| sissy \| sleazy \| slight \| slop \| sloppiness \| sloppy \| slush \| soap opera \| sob story \| soft \| softling \| softy \| sop \| so-so \| sticky \| sweetness and light \| tacky \| tearjerker \| tear-jerking \| teary \| tedious \| tolerable \| unsubstantial \| vapid \| weak sister \| weakling \| wishy-washy \| wispy \| womanish See Also \| doormat \| weakling \| wuss Namby-pamby In Webster's Dictionary \Nam"by-pam`by\, n. [From Ambrose Phillips, in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. --Macaulay. \Nam"by-pam`by\, a. Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. --Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. --W. Gifford.

Namby-pamby Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Namby-pamby?

[n] an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental
[adj] weak in willpower

Synonyms | Synonyms for Namby-pamby: spineless | weak | wishy-washy

See Also | doormat | weakling | wuss

Namby-pamby In Webster's Dictionary

\Nam"by-pam`by\, n. [From Ambrose Phillips, in
ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.]
Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly
pretty. --Macaulay.


\Nam"by-pam`by\, a.
Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
--Thackeray.

      Namby-pamby madrigals of love.           --W. Gifford.

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