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pushover
[poosh-oh-ver] 
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pushover
[poosh-oh-ver]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something or someone easily influenced |
| Synonyms: | breeze, child's play, chump, cinch, duck soup, easy game, easy mark, easy pickings, fool, kid stuff, picnic, piece of cake, setup, snap, soft touch, stooge, sucker, victim, walkover |
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is fooled |
| Synonyms: | butt*, chump, easy mark, fish*, fool, mark*, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap*, sitting duck, sucker, victim |
| Antonyms: | cognizant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facility, freedom |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, affability, aplomb, breeze, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, informality, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, unaffectedness, unconstraint, unreservedness |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, effort, inhibition, perplexity, restriction |
| Main Entry: | easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not difficult |
| Synonyms: | accessible, apparent, basic, child's play, cinch, clear, easily done, effortless, elementary, evident, facile, inconsiderable, light, little, manageable, manifest, mere, no bother, no problem, no sweat, no trouble, not burdensome, nothing to it, obvious, painless, paltry, picnic, piece of cake, plain, plain sailing, pushover, royal, simple, simple as ABC, slight, smooth, snap, straightforward, uncomplicated, undemanding, uninvolved, untroublesome, wieldy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complex, complicated, demanding, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, laborious, uneasy |
| Main Entry: | facile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy; easily mastered |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie, effortless, fast talk, flip*, fluent, glib, hasty, light, obvious, picnic, practiced, proficient, pushover, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick*, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complicated, confusing, difficult, hard, involved, laborious, profound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feasible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | possible, doable |
| Synonyms: | achievable, advantageous, appropriate, attainable, beneficial, breeze, cinch, duck soup, easy as pie, expedient, fit, fitting, likely, no sweat, performable, pie, piece of cake, practicable, practical, probable, profitable, pushover, realizable, reasonable, simple as ABC, snap, suitable, viable, workable, worthwhile |
| Notes: | feasible means capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; possible means capable of happening or existing; probable means likely but not certain to be or become true or real |
| Antonyms: | impossible, inconceivable, unfeasible, unlikely, unpractical, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | obtainable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | achievable, available |
| Synonyms: | at hand, attainable, derivable, duck soup, gettable, in stock, no problem, no sweat, on deck, on offer, on tap, piece of cake, procurable, purchasable, pushover, ready, realizable, securable, there for the taking, to be had |
| Antonyms: | unachievable, unavailable, unobtainable |
| Main Entry: | patsy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fall guy |
| Synonyms: | boob*, chump, doormat, dupe, easy mark, fool, goat, gull, pigeon, pushover, sap*, scapegoat, schmuck, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | picnic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy undertaking |
| Synonyms: | breeze*, child's play, cinch, duck soup, kid stuff, lark, light work, no trouble, piece of cake, pushover, setup, smooth sailing, snap, sure thing, walkover |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, drudgery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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