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pushover
| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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
| Main Entry: | puppet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or toy manipulated by another |
| Synonyms: | creature, doll, dupe*, figurehead, figurine, instrument, jerk*, manikin, marionette, moppet, mouthpiece, patsy, pawn, pushover, schlemiel, servant, soft touch, stooge, tool*, victim |
| Notes: | the word puppet originally meant 'doll' and a puppet usually goes on the hand and arm, while a marionette (or string puppet) is a jointed figure with strings or wires |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scapegoat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes blame for another's action |
| Synonyms: | boob, chump, doormat, dupe, easy mark, fall guy, fool, goat, gull, mark*, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sacrifice, sap*, schmuck, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sissy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakling |
| Synonyms: | baby, chicken*, coward, cream puff, crybaby, cuckold, daisy, jellyfish, milksop, momma's boy, namby-pamby, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, wimp*, wuss, yellow belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stooge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dupe |
| Synonyms: | chump, easy mark, fall guy, flunky, fool, lackey, patsy, pawn, pigeon, puppet, pushover, sap*, sucker, victim |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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