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wimpy

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wimpy.

Editorial note

Not to sound too wimpy, but holding your arms up like this is physically taxing for the unpracticed.

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Quick take

(informal, often derogatory) Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

(informal, often derogatory) Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wimpy.

adjective

(informal, often derogatory) Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.

Example sentences

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Not to sound too wimpy, but holding your arms up like this is physically taxing for the unpracticed.

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Just like in the architectures born in the 60's and 70's out of necessity because of wimpy CPUs...

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That my attempt to not use wimpy numbers doesnt seem to work as it should is besides the point.

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The railroad industry adopted steel rapidly, and locomotives went from wimpy little things to monster machines.

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And anybody who complains about golang not having generics is a wimpy whiner, IMO.

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It's far too small a machine to run Linux, but it's the next step up when an ARM CPU is just too wimpy.

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I'm sure we'll continue to be subject to the same wimpy upvoters/downvoters we've always been subject to...

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United States schools are too wimpy academically to fully develop young people socially.

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Have an array of cheap, wimpy cores, and it becomes a different calculation.

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Other comments have already addressed how wimpy a substitution cipher is.

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The HIV consensus is because we're too wimpy to try Koch's postulates on condemned prisoners.

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Being too wimpy to be put on the front lines?

Quote examples

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Well, if they're cutting out "wimpy" numbers, there is a little to be gained from lossless compression.

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(Dolphin image as well, I believe)) But back to "standards." The Smalltalk standard was pretty wimpy for most if its iterations.

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Here's a contrived example of possible many-wimp-core offloading for you (that would be complicated, but possible): Consider an architecture where many wimpy cores can "hang" on reads from a memory location, and start executing as soon as there's an update.

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"Wimpy male introvert" is hardly an exceptionally rare stereotype within IT, and 'not being given anything' is hardly the same as 'having things taken away', which I constantly see happening.

Proper noun examples

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McDonalds might call themselves a restaurant (and I'm sure many others also do, Burger King, Wimpy, KFC, etc)…but I'm sure most people wouldn't describe them as a restaurant - it's a convenient marketing term, nothing more.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use wimpy in a sentence?

Not to sound too wimpy, but holding your arms up like this is physically taxing for the unpracticed.

What does wimpy mean?

(informal, often derogatory) Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.

What part of speech is wimpy?

wimpy is commonly used as adjective.