wallflower
IPA: wˈɔɫfɫaʊɝ
noun
- Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
- Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.
- A person who does not dance at a party, due to shyness or unpopularity; by extension, anyone who is left on the sidelines while an activity takes place.
- (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.
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Examples of "wallflower" in Sentences
- Charlie is the wallflower of the novel.
- Brittany looks like a modest wallflower.
- I'm usually the sad, drooping wallflower myself.
- He likes people and that's helpful; he's not a wallflower.
- Let's leave it up and see if this little wallflower grows.
- She's not a wallflower, and later marries and has children.
- I decided not to be a wallflower about it and made the change.
- I was what you would call a wallflower, she said with a smile.
- It is a member of the wallflower genus in the mustard family, the Brassicaceae.
- She has described herself during childhood as part extrovert, part wallflower .
- They are usually perceived as the "wallflower," and often do not get deeply engaged in life.
- The man in Washington who can not dance is a "wallflower" -- that is, he never leaves the wall.
- Do they generally fall under the "wallflower" category, suffering from lack of self-confidence?
- They were the type of dudes who would probably make Iggy seem like a bit of a wallflower, which is funny because that's so far removed from his reputation.
- The album is almost always more intricate than its modest tone suggests, with the best tracks recalling wallflower tunesmiths from the Zombies 'Colin Blunstone to the Softies.
- FERGUSON: You self-sabotage, your self-esteem out of the window, you lose confidence, and in my particular case, you walk into the room backwards so that you know -- and try to be a wallflower, which is quite difficult when you've got the world's media watching you, and you permanently think this thing traveling behind you -- you don't know what it is, but you realize it's your own backside.