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/ˈwɔːlˌflaʊ.ə/ · noun
Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers..
A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.
Mrs. Galbraith shook all over with laughter as she replied, "Hear that boy, asking me to dance ! I'm content to be a wallflower, now-a-days."
And now, by virtue of his office, he is entitled to a seat in the Grand Lodge. Is it any wonder he is a wall-flower there […]
It is a triumph, of course, to have plenty of partners, and not to be a wallflower for a single dance.
Jack Breen was a wallflower; still at the same time I noticed he was cultivating an ornamental smile — a Jack of Trumps, you bet.
She was a wallflower in a sleepy little town itself a wallflower. She was a joke to the village wits and a byword to the village belles.
"Where--oh. Hidden in the corner. You two aren't already going all wallflower, are you?" "We are not wallflowers." "To be fair, I can be. But then I get mad at myself for it and get all loud and snarky."
Second City was a wallflower at the show business ball. It needed to be. Improvisers needed to fail, and fail safely; and in the Midwest, far from Broadway and Hollywood, they really could. Second-class stature was the secret ingredient, ...
Use wallflower when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wallflower means Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers..
Common synonyms include cheiranthus cheiri, erysimum cheiri.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.
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