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Definition of 'wimp' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (Informal.) wimp
a weak, ineffectual, timid person.

2. (v.) wimp
wimp out,

3.  wimp
to be or act like a wimp.

4.  wimp
to show timidity or cowardice; chicken out.

5. (n.) WIMP
any of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.

Etymology:  (1985–90; W(eakly) I(nteracting) M(assive) P(article))

Definition of 'wimp' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) wimp, chicken, crybaby
a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

2. (noun) weakly interacting massive particle, WIMP
a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe


Definition of 'wimp' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) wimp
a weak or cowardly person
Don't be a wimp, climb up!

2. (verb) wimp
to decide not do sth because you are too afraid
I wanted to ask her out, but I wimped out at the last minute.


Translation of 'wimp' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a person lacking in courage or confidence.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: lafaard Arabic flag Arabic: شَخْص ضَعيف تَنْقُصُه الش Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: слабак
Brazilian flag Brazilian: covarde / medroso Czech flag Czech: strašpytel German flag German: der Jammerlappen
Danish flag Danish: skvat Greek flag Greek: ανθρωπάκι, δειλός Spanish flag Spanish: tímido, cortado, parado
Estonian flag Estonian: äpu Farsi flag Farsi: بی اراده Finnish flag Finnish: nahjus
French flag French: poule mouillée Hebrew flag Hebrew: נְמוּשָה Hindi flag Hindi: कम साहस एवं विश्वास वाला
Croatian flag Croatian: slabić Hungarian flag Hungarian: nyúl(béla) Indonesian flag Indonesian: pengecut
Italian flag Italian: imbranato Japanese flag Japanese: 弱虫 Korean flag Korean: 소심한 사람
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ištižėlis, lepšis Latvian flag Latvian: gļēvulis Malay flag Malay: orang yg bacul
Dutch flag Dutch: lafaard, schijterd; slapj Norwegian flag Norwegian: pyse, reddhare Polish flag Polish: mięczak
Persian flag Persian: بی اراده Pashto flag Pashto: خپوڼي،( دښځى دسر دسمال) ( Romanian flag Romanian: laş; persoană care nu are
Russian flag Russian: сопляк Slovak flag Slovak: zbabelec, slaboch Slovenian flag Slovenian: zguba
Serbian flag Serbian: slabić Swedish flag Swedish: ynkrygg, mes Thai flag Thai: ผู้ที่ไม่มีกำลังใจ
Turkish flag Turkish: kendine güvensiz kişi Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 軟弱無用的人 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: “слимак”
Urdu flag Urdu: وہ شخص جس میں اعتماد کی ک Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: người nhút nhát Chinese flag Chinese: 懦弱无用的人

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