washy as an adjective: - 1
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washy
adjective
1 washy
Overly diluted; thin and insipid:
— Washy coffee.
synonyms: watery, weak.
Roget 160:
weak,
feeble,
debile†;
impotent
etc.
158;
relaxed,
unnerved,
etc.
v.;
sapless,
strengthless†,
powerless;
weakly,
unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic†,
asthenic†;
nervous.
soft,
effeminate,
feminate†,
womanly.
frail,
fragile,
shattery†;
flimsy,
unsubstantial,
insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread;
rickety,
creaky,
creaking,
cranky;
craichy†;
drooping,
tottering
etc.
v..
broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky;
palsied
etc.
158;
decrepit.
languid,
poor,
infirm;
faint,
faintish†;
sickly
etc.
(disease)
655;
dull,
slack,
evanid†,
spent,
short-winded,
effete;
weather-beaten;
decayed,
rotten,
worn,
seedy,
languishing,
wasted,
washy,
laid low,
pulled down,
the worse for wear.
unstrengthened
etc.
159†,
unsupported,
unaided,
unassisted;
aidless†,
defenseless
etc.
158;
cantilevered
(support)
215.
on its last legs;
weak as a child,
weak as a baby,
weak as a chicken,
weak as a cat,
weak as a rat;
weak as water,
weak as water gruel,
weak as gingerbread,
weak as milk and water;
colorless
etc.
429.
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Roget 517:
unmeaning;
meaningless,
senseless;
nonsensical;
void of sense
etc.
516.
inexpressive,
unexpressive;
vacant;
not significant
etc.
516;
insignificant.
trashy,
washy,
trumpery,
trivial,
fiddle-faddle,
twaddling,
quibbling.
unmeant,
not expressed;
tacit
etc.
(latent)
526.
inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable.
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Roget 575:
feeble,
bald,
tame,
meager,
jejune,
vapid,
bland,
trashy,
lukewarm,
cold,
frigid,
poor,
dull,
dry,
languid;
colorless,
enervated;
proposing,
prosy,
prosaic;
unvaried,
monotonous,
weak,
washy,
wishy-washy;
sketchy,
slight.
careless,
slovenly,
loose,
lax
(negligent)
460;
slipshod,
slipslop†;
inexact;
puerile,
childish;
flatulent;
rambling
etc.
(diffuse)
573.
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2 washy
Having lost freshness or brilliance of color:
— Washy colors.
synonyms: bleached, faded, washed-out.
Polish: wyszarzały, bezbarwny, spłowiały, wypełzły, wyblakły, przyblakły, spełzły, zblakły, poblakły, zmatowiały, wypłowiały ... show more
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