Synonyms for wallflower
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wawl-flou-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɔlˌflaʊ ər |
Définition of wallflower
Origin :- 1570s, "flowering plant cultivated in gardens," from wall (n.) + flower (n.). Colloquial sense of "woman who sits by the wall at parties, often for want of a partner" is first recorded 1820.
- As in introvert : noun person who retreats mentally
- A beautiful girl in church on Sunday mornings, but a wallflower at a dance.
- Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson
- A wallflower had forced itself into root on the sill of a giant oriel.
- Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Sally Anders had never really thought of herself as a wallflower.
- Extract from : « The Calm Man » by Frank Belknap Long
- The Wallflower, as its name tells you, likes to grow on walls.
- Extract from : « Flowers Shown to the Children » by C. E. Smith
- One plant of the wallflower in the garden would have covered it.
- Extract from : « Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey » by J. M. Barrie
- Wallflower principally in the shape of the stigma (see fig. 117, a).
- Extract from : « Botany for Ladies » by Jane Loudon
- It smelled of soap and burnt paper and wallflower brilliantine.
- Extract from : « Bliss, and Other Stories » by Katherine Mansfield
- The sweetness of a sun-baked bank of Wallflower belongs to April.
- Extract from : « Wood and Garden » by Gertrude Jekyll
- These parts are seen in the petals of the wallflower (fig. 54).
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 » by Various
- How fair carnation and wallflower the borders of the garden line!
- Extract from : « Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers » by W. A. Clouston
Antonyms for wallflower
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