Meaning

3 senses
  1. Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.

    I'm a pushover when it comes to buying new kitchen gadgets.

    Schwächling, Umfaller

    проста́кprosták, простофи́ляprostofílja

    someone who is easily taken advantage of

  2. 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.

    Weichei

    слаба́кslabák

  3. Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.

    any undertaking that is easy to do

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Tom is a pushover.

    ruТом — тряпка.

    deTom ist ein halbes Hemd.

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  2. You're a pushover.

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  3. The final boss was a pushover.

    deDer Endgegner war ein Kinderspiel.

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  4. Algeria has never been a pushover.

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  5. Ziri stopped feeling like a pushover.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply:
Someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply:
Someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied:

Origin

A deverbal from push over. First use appears c. 1891 in the Galveston Daily News.

A deverbal from push over. First use appears c. 1891 in the Galveston Daily News.

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Forms

plural: pushovers
Singularpushover
Pluralpushovers

regular

Synonyms

14 synonyms
someone who is easily swayed or influenced:little girlmolluscnose of wax
someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied:nestle-cock
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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