Meanings
nounpushover (plural pushovers)
plural pushovers
- 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.
1 more example
“His [Helmut Newton's] women are strong and powerful, definitely not pushovers,” he says.
2024 May 4, Melanie Gerlies, quoting Simon de Pury, “New claimant to €35 mn Klimt emerges”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18Synonyms: little girl, mollusc, nose of wax
- 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.
Synonyms: nestle-cock
- Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.
nounSomeone 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.
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nounany undertaking that is easy to do
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
A deverbal from push over. First use appears c. 1891 in the Galveston Daily News.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian балама
- балама (balama)Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
Czech slaboch
- slabochSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
Esperanto cedemulo
- cedemuloSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
German Schwächling, Umfaller
- SchwächlingSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- UmfallerSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- WeicheiSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Hebrew פראייר
- פראייר (fráyer)Someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Hungarian palimadár, balek
- palimadárSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- balekSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- könnyen befolyásolható emberSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- balekSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- mamlaszSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Italian merlo, pollo
- merloSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- polloSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- smidollatoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- pappa molleSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- pappamolleSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- rammollitoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- fifoneSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- codardoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- cortigianoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- molluscoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- vigliaccoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- pusillanimeSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Korean 호구
- 호구 (hogu)Someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Polish naiwniak, naiwniaczka
- naiwniakSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- naiwniaczkaSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- frajerSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- frajerkaSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- popychadłoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Portuguese influenciável, bobo
- influenciávelSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- boboSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- coitadoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- covardeSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- fracoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- frouxoSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- molengaSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- pusilânimeSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Russian проста́к, простофи́ля
- проста́к (prosták)Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- простофи́ля (prostofílja)Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- слаба́к (slabák)Someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
Spanish títere, marioneta
- títereSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- marionetaSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- monigoteSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- peleleSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- muñecoSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
- pusilánimeSomeone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply
Turkish ezik, pısırık
- ezikSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
- pısırıkSomeone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied
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Cite this entry
APA
pushover. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pushover
MLA
“pushover.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pushover. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pushover,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pushover.
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