Usually means: Lacking courage, strength, or assertiveness.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. wimp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wimp: Merriam-Webster
  3. WIMP, WIMP, wimp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. WIMP, wimp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wimp: Collins English Dictionary
  6. WIMP, wimp: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wimp, wimp: Wordnik
  8. wimp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WIMP, wimp: Wiktionary
  10. wimp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wimp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wimp: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. WIMP: Dictionary.com
  14. wimp (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wimp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. WIMP (computing), WIMP (software bundle), WIMP, WiMP, Wimp (disambiguation), Wimp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. wimp: Rhymezone
  18. WIMP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. wimp: FreeDictionary.org
  20. wimp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Wimp: The Word Detective
  22. WIMP: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. WIMP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. WIMP: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. WIMP (computing), WIMP, Wimp (disambiguation): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WIMP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. WIMP: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WIMP: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. WIMP: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wimp, wimp, wimp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wimp: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. W.I.M.P: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See wimpiness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly derogatory, slang) Someone who lacks confidence or courage, is weak, ineffectual, irresolute and wishy-washy.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To behave submissively.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To make (something) weak or wimpy.
adjective:  (slang) Weak, wimpy.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of WIMP
noun:  (astronomy, physics) Acronym of weakly interacting massive particle. [(astronomy, physics) A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem.]
noun:  (graphical user interface) Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer (a graphical interface paradigm). [An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.]
noun:  (graphical user interface, very rare) Acronym of window-icon-mouse program.
noun:  (Internet software) Initialism of Windows, Internet Information Services, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Perl/Python. [(operating systems, trademark) Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a WIMP graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market.]

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