adj
Meaning 1
Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pansy
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/ˈpæn.zi/
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rhymes with -ænzi
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CMU ARPABET: P AE1 N Z IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
Meaning 3
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
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noun
Meaning 5
A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
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noun
Meaning 6
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: argus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, derogatory
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: big girl's blouse, candy-arse, candy-ass, crybaby, milksop, milquetoast, namby, namby-pamby, nestle-cock, pansy, pantywaist, poon, punk, pushover, pussy, sissy, softy, tenderling, weakling, weenie, wimp, wuss, wussy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, dated, derogatory
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bading, big girl's blouse, cockney, cot-quean, cupcake, dudelet, fakaleiti, fairy, femboy, gentleman, ginch, girl's blouse, girlyman, janegirl, jessie, nancy, nancyboy, nancy pants, pansy, Percy, poof, poofter, posy sniffer, pretty boy, puss-gentleman, quiche-eater, sissy, softling, soy boy, swish, twink, zenana
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To mess about; to fail to get things done.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang, usually
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noun
Meaning 10
offensive term for an openly homosexual man
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gay man, shirtlifter
noun
Meaning 11
a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sissy, pantywaist, milksop, Milquetoast
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: coward
noun
Meaning 12
large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Viola tricolor hortensis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: viola
History
Etymology
From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
From pansy (“type of flower”).
Across languages
Translations
81 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: fifí — Translations
- Spanish: fifirifi — Translations
- Hindi: बनफ्शई (banaphśaī) — colour
- Russian: фиоле́товый (fiolétovyj) — colour
- Azerbaijani: kəpənəkgülü — plant
- Bulgarian: трицве́тна темену́га (tricvétna temenúga) — plant
- Catalan: pensament — plant
- Catalan: pensamentera — plant
- Chinese Mandarin: 三色堇 (sānsèjǐn) — plant
- Czech: maceška — plant
- Dutch: viooltje — plant
- Dutch: reuzenviool — plant
- Finnish: orvokki — plant
- Finnish: tarhaorvokki — plant
- French: pensée — plant
- Galician: pensamento — plant
- Georgian: იაჟუჟუნა (iažužuna) — plant
- German: Stiefmütterchen — plant
- Greek: πανσές (pansés) — plant
- Hebrew: אַמְנוֹן וְתָמָר (amnón vetamár) — plant
- Hindi: बनफशा (banaphśā) — plant
- Hungarian: árvácska — plant
- Irish: goirmín — plant
- Italian: pansé — plant
- Italian: viola del pensiero — plant
- Japanese: パンジー (panjī) — plant
- Japanese: 三色菫 (sanshikisumire) — plant
- Korean: 팬지 (paenji) — plant
- Norman: pensée — plant
- Norman: des faches dé cat — plant
- Persian: بنفشه سهرنگ — plant
- Plautdietsch: Steefmurrakje — plant
- Polish: bratek — plant
- Portuguese: amor-perfeito — plant
- Punjabi: ਪੈਂਜ਼ੀ (paĩzī) — plant
- Romanian: pansea — plant
- Romanian: panseluță — plant
- Russian: аню́тины гла́зки (anjútiny glázki) — plant
- Spanish: pensamiento — plant
- Spanish: trinitaria — plant
- Swedish: pensé — plant
- Turkish: hercai menekşe — plant
- Turkish: alacamenekşe — plant
- Welsh: trilliw — plant
- Welsh: fioled drilliw — plant
- Finnish: orvokinsininen — colour
- French: mauve — colour
- French: indigo — colour
- Dutch: schijtlijster — informal: coward or weak person
- French: fiotte — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: mammoletta — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: femminuccia — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: coniglio — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: merlo — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: pollo — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: smidollato — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: pappa molle — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: pappamolle — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: rammollito — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: fifone — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: codardo — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: cortigiano — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: mollusco — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: vigliacco — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: pusillanime — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: eunuco — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: debole — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: pisciasotto — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: cacasotto — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: pauroso — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: vile — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: checca — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: frocio — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: ricchione — informal: coward or weak person
- Italian: finocchio — informal: coward or weak person
- Polish: baba — informal: coward or weak person
- Russian: хлюпик (xljupik) — informal: coward or weak person
- Russian: слабак (slabak) — informal: coward or weak person
- Spanish: marica — informal: coward or weak person
- Spanish: fifí — informal: coward or weak person
- Spanish: fifirifi — informal: coward or weak person