wallflower

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Editorial note

If you are a wallflower or extremely shy, choosing to remain silent will only serve to disempower you further.

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Quick take

Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.

noun

Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.

noun

(informal) Any person who is socially awkward, shy, or reserved.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wallflower.

noun

Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.

noun

Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.

noun

(informal) Any person who is socially awkward, shy, or reserved.

verb

(intransitive) To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.

Example sentences

If you are a wallflower or extremely shy, choosing to remain silent will only serve to disempower you further.

As a freelance designer myself, I can see exactly what you mean @wallflower.

If you're the same wallflower that ripens the events, just wanted to say thanks for that too.

It's something of a combo of what wallflower and GuiA wrote already: opportunity, making connections, and tons of hard work.

Given the current situ, digg may end up being a web2 wallflower as the capital to make such big purchases dry up.

According to wallflower below, it was to weld thick steel plates to the joints.

S.: I'm both a bit older and a bit of a wallflower, so my perceptions may be off.

As for who/what I am, wallflower is correct in that I used to be a Canada-based programmer.

It was used in The Perks of Being a Wallflower last year.

Many thanks wallflower, GavinB and cstross for the advice:-) Edit: Oops, and xcombinator, just saw your comment!

Not so - you just look like a wallflower.

As wallflower pointed out there are plenty of ways.

Quote examples

This means that the overlooked talent is probably not going to fit the "Stanford Wallflower" bill, but be somewhere that most VCs wouldn't deign to look.

This is how to "be like Jesus," neither a wallflower nor a wimp, without creating more violence.

Pre-smartphone you'd get sick of being a wallflower and some point, go "fuck it", and introduce yourself to somebody.

I wouldn't call wallflower's title ("Half the DNA on the NYC Subway Matches No Known Organism") egregiously editorialized, though, since that finding was the one the article itself highlighted.

Proper noun examples

Thanks Wallflower, yes I was hesitant about making that comment - I did research previous comments but not as far back as you did - I do think it's important to question authenticity of a comment esp.