wallflower
wallflower · wallflowers · wallflowered · wallflowering
To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join inTo stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.
Recorded: Commander Keane, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
UK/ˈwɔːlˌflaʊ.ə/US/ˈwɔlˌflaʊ.ɚ/
Meaning
1 sensesTo stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.
Origin
From wall + flower.From wall + flower.
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Forms
wallflowers, wallflowering, wallflowered, wallfloweredregular · Lesson
| Base form | wallflower · to wallflower |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | wallflowers |
| Present participle | wallflowering |
| Past simple | wallflowered |
| Past participle | wallflowered |
Tenses
wallflower · wallflowered · will wallflower · have wallfloweredPoint at a form to see it in a sentence.Tap a form to see it in a sentence.
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedshrinking violet
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.