Synonyms of wimpy

wimpy

adjective

1

as in weak

lacking bodily strength

a wimpy person is not the best choice for a job with a moving company

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weak
• feeble
• weakened
• frail
• disabled
• faint
• soft
• tired
• wimpish
• slight
• enfeebled
• paralyzed
• effete
• softened
• debilitated
• infirm
• asthenic
• unsubstantial
• low
• languid
• vulnerable
• wasted
• exhausted
• down-and-out
• delicate
• injured
• prostrate
• tender
• incapacitated
• fragile
• enervated
• weary
• sapped
• prostrated
• invalid
• impotent
• powerless
• unsteady
• flimsy
• drained
• decrepit
• damaged
• dizzy
• hurt
• rocky
• susceptible
• breakable
• groggy
• woozy
• impaired
• broken-down
• flagging
• unsound
• worn-out
• resistless
• yielding
• unresistant
• harmed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• powerful
• strong
• mighty
• muscular
• rugged
• stout
• beefy
• stalwart
• brawny
• tough
• virile
• athletic
• hardy
• robust
• hard
• sturdy
• husky
• sinewy
• fit
• lusty
• hardened
• able-bodied
• vigorous
• energetic
• fortified
• sound
• strengthened
• healthy
• capable
• strapping
• competent
• red-blooded
• energized
• toughened
• hale
• inured
• recovering
• invigorated
• vitalized
• convalescing
• recuperating

2

as in weakened

lacking strength of will or character

a wimpy effort to change the law that was doomed to failure

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weak
• weakened
• soft
• meek
• wimpish
• spineless
• timid
• corrupt
• frail
• weakling
• characterless
• weak-kneed
• effete
• wishy-washy
• nerveless
• limp-wristed
• namby-pamby
• invertebrate
• milk-and-water
• wet
• flabby
• ineffectual
• ineffective
• flaccid
• powerless
• impotent
• emasculated
• craven
• pusillanimous
• forceless
• submissive
• cowardly
• villainous
• unscrupulous
• sissy
• unnerved
• unprincipled
• pliable
• dastardly
• lamblike
• irresolute
• fainthearted
• impuissant
• infirm
• nebbishy
• lily-livered
• poltroon
• vacillating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• strong
• tough
• hard
• good
• firm
• moral
• right
• virtuous
• righteous
• ethical
• upright
• principled
• backboned
• unrelenting
• resolute
• determined
• courageous
• stalwart
• mettlesome
• stouthearted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wimpy

After this, the boy and his mother move to Lima, where the father sends him to a military academy, in an attempt to beat the wimpy artist out of him. —The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 May 2026

Bad sesame-ginger dressings are watery, wimpy, oily or syrupy. —Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026

The sausage is fine, the muffin is wimpy but fine, the whole thing’s fine. —Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Feb. 2026

Roy Keane Last seen towering over Steve Coogan’s weirdly wimpy Mick McCarthy in the Saipan film, the mesmerising Eanna Hardwicke should just stay in character for United duty. —Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026

Rewatched today, through no foreseeable fault of the movie or actor, Davison’s wimpy, anti-social straight white loner character still looks like a caricature but feels darker. —Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2026

Instead of wimpy 20% or 30% discounts, a lot of items are over half off. —Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 6 Nov. 2025

Any insightful commentary on the 1% protecting themselves is rendered rote with a wimpy, ludicrous dénouement. —Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025

These aren’t your run-of-the-mill wimpy tints. —Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025