pushover

Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.

Noun

  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...
  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.
  3. Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.

Origin

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

Forms

pushovers

Synonyms

little girl mollusc nose of wax nestle-cock softy wuss

Related

cave cave in give in pullover turn the other cheek

Derived

pushoverness