pushover

1. 1.

   someone who is easily taken advantage of

   Broaderflunky
2. 2.

   any undertaking that is easy to do

   “marketing this product will be no picnic”

   Synonymscinchbreezepicnicsnapduck soupchild's playwalkoverpiece of cake

   Broaderundertaking

   Narrowerdoddle

Other forms of pushover

plural

pushovers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pushover

What does pushover mean?

pushover means "someone who is easily taken advantage of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pushover?

pushover has 3 syllables: pus-ho-ver. The stress falls on "pus". In IPA it is /ˈpʊˌʃoʊvɚ/.

What is another word for pushover?

Close synonyms include cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pushover a common word?

pushover is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.