NAMBY-PAMBYISM

Meaning of NAMBY-PAMBYISM in English

“+ˌizəm noun

( -s )

: namby-pambiness

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

NAMBY — ˈnambē adjective or noun Etymology: by shortening : namby-pamby
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NAMBY-PAMBY — — namby-pambiness, namby-pambyism , n. — namby-pambyish , adj. /nam"bee pam"bee/ , adj., n., pl. namby-pambies for 4. adj. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NAMBY PAMBY — Synonyms and related words : Milquetoast, baby, banal, bathetic, bathos, beery, betwixt and between, big baby, bland, bleeding heart, breakable, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
NAMBY-PAMBY — I. |nambē|pambē, |naam...aambē, -bi...bi adjective Etymology: from Namby Pamby, nickname given to Ambrose Philips died 1749 English poet by some …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NAMBY-PAMBY — adjective Etymology: Namby Pamby, nickname given to Ambrose Philips Date: 1741 1. : lacking in character or substance : insipid …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NAMBY-PAMBY — [nam.by-pam.by] adj [Namby Pamby, nickname given to Ambrose Philips] (1745) 1: lacking in character or substance: insipid 2: weak, indecisive …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
NAMBY-PAMBY — namby-pam|by BrE AmE ˌnæm bi ˈpæm |bi ◂ ▷ namby-pam|bies biz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
NAMBY-PAMBY — nam ‧ by-pam ‧ by /ˌnæmbi ˈpæmbi◂/ BrE AmE adjective informal [ Date: 1700-1800 ; Origin: Name given to the …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NAMBY-PAMBY — adj. & n. --adj. 1 lacking vigour or drive; weak. 2 insipidly pretty or sentimental. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NAMBY-PAMBY — adj. & n. --adj. 1. lacking vigour or drive; weak. 2 insipidly pretty or sentimental. --n. (pl. -ies) 1. a …
Oxford English vocab
NAMBY-PAMBY — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ In the end, the Beast turns back into a namby-pamby prince. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TEARJERKER — Synonyms and related words : bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — Synonyms and related words : bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, …
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SOB STORY — Synonyms and related words : bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, …
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SOAP OPERA — Synonyms and related words : Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bathos, bleeding heart, bomb, broadcast, …
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SLUSH — Synonyms and related words : avalanche, bathos, big mouth, bleeding heart, blizzard, candor, clay, cloyingness, communicativeness, conversableness, crystal, driven snow, …
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SLOP — Synonyms and related words : asperge, bathos, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, bilge, bilgewater, bleeding heart, bolt, bones, carrion, cascade, cataract, chaff, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SENTIMENTALITY — Synonyms and related words : affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, corn, corniness, demonstrativeness, ecstasy, emotionalism, enchantment, goatishness, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SENTIMENT
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ROMANTICISM — Synonyms and related words : affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, autism, autistic thinking, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, demonstrativeness, dereism, dereistic thinking, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
NOSTALGIA — Synonyms and related words : Heimweh, aching, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, daydream, daydreaming, desiderium, goo, hankering, hearts-and-flowers, homesickness, honing, languishing, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUSHINESS — Synonyms and related words : bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, doughiness, flabbiness, fleshiness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, mashiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUSH — Synonyms and related words : airing, amble, bathos, bazoo, bleeding heart, breakfast food, butter, cataplasm, cereal, chaps, chops, cloyingness, constitutional, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HEARTS-AND-FLOWERS — Synonyms and related words : bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GOO
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BLEEDING HEART — Synonyms and related words : aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bathos, bitterness, bowels of compassion, broken heart, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BATHOS — Synonyms and related words : anticlimax, bleeding heart, cloyingness, comedown, goo, hearts-and-flowers, heaviness, heaviness of heart, heavy heart, heavyheartedness, maudlinness, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
NAMBY-PAMBY — 1. сущ. 1) жеманство; сентиментальность writer of namby-pamby Syn : mincing manners, finicality 2) жеманный, сентиментальный человек 2. прил. 1) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
NAMBY-PAMBY — namby-pamby adj infml He is too namby-pamby when it comes to making up his mind Он такой слабохарактерный, когда надо …
Англо-Русский новый словарь современного неформального английского языка
NAMBY-PAMBY — 1. сущ. 1) жеманство; сентиментальность writer of namby-pamby Syn : mincing manners, finicality 2) жеманный, сентиментальный человек 2. прил. 1) …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
NAMB — y-pamby [adjective] [informal] [disapproving] - weak, foolish or sillyI hate these awful namby-pamby poems.He regarded vegetarians as namby-pamby animal-lovers.He thought …
Cambridge English vocab

Webster's New International English Dictionary

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