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pushover

/ˈpʊʃəʊvə(ɹ)/

pushover noun: someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.

Noun

pushover (plural pushovers)

  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.
    • “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 18
  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.
    Synonyms:
    nestle-cock
  3. Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.

pushover meaning in Malayalam

pushover in Malayalam

feeble opponent, weakling, man of straw
നിസ്സാരമായി കീഴടക്കാവുന്ന ആൾ, ദുർബ്ബലനായ എതിരാളി, എളുപ്പം തോല്പിക്കെപ്പെടുന്നവൻ, അരപ്രാണൻ, ബലഹീനൻ, ദുർബ്ബലൻ
walkover, easy task, five-finger exercise
ലഘുസാദ്ധ്യമായ കാര്യം, അയത്നസാധ്യം, പ്രയാസമില്ലാത്ത ജോലി, എളുപ്പപ്പണി, നിഷ്പ്രയാസ വിജയം, കളിമ്പം

Synonyms of pushover

All synonyms of pushover

Forms of pushover

pluralpushovers

Plural of pushover: pushovers

Origin of pushover

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

Words formed from pushover

Questions about pushover

What does pushover mean?
Pushover means someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.
What is pushover in Malayalam?
Pushover in Malayalam is നിസ്സാരമായി കീഴടക്കാവുന്ന ആൾ, ദുർബ്ബലനായ എതിരാളി, എളുപ്പം തോല്പിക്കെപ്പെടുന്നവൻ. See Pushover meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is pushover?
Pushover is a noun.
How do you pronounce pushover?
Pushover is pronounced /ˈpʊʃəʊvə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of pushover?
The plural of pushover is pushovers.

Words near pushover in the dictionary

  1. pushmowers
  2. pushmowing
  3. pushmows
  4. pushout
  5. pushouts
  6. pushover
  7. pushoverness
  8. pushovers
  9. Pushpa
  10. pushpad
  11. Pushpadanta

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pushover (page history and authors); pushover (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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