wallflower

3 definitions • 2 examples

a pleasant smelling garden plant that has yellow, orange, or brown flowers that grow in groups

a shy person, especially a girl or woman, who is frightened to involve herself in social activities and does not attract much interest or attention:

Sooner or later someone would take pity on the poor wallflower and ask her to dance.

a type of investment that investors are not very interested in because they think it does not have much value:

Because National Savings products are not very competitive, they are widely regarded as the wallflowers of the investment world.