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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncaring, disinterested |
| Synonyms: | blah*, callous, cold, cool, could care less, couldn't care less, don't give a damn, draggy, emotionless, flat, impassive, indifferent, insensible, laid-back*, languid, moony, passive, stoic, stolid, unconcerned, unemotional, unfeeling, uninterested, unmoved, unresponsive, untouched, what the hell, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | caring, concerned, interested, responsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | craven |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, timid |
| Synonyms: | chicken*, cowardly, dastardly, fearful, gutless, lily-livered, mean-spirited, poltroonish, pusillanimous, scared, timorous, weak-kneed, wimpish, wimpy, wussy, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, heroic, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fainthearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timid |
| Synonyms: | afraid, cowardly, cowed, cowering, fearful, frightened, gutless, having cold feet, intimidated, lily-livered, meek, mousy, spineless, unassertive, weak, wimpy, yellow* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feeble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not strong; ineffective |
| Synonyms: | aged, ailing, chicken*, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, out of gas, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sapless, sickly, slight, strengthless, tame, thin, unconvincing, vitiated, weak, weakened, weakly, wimpy, woozy, zero* |
| Antonyms: | able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frangible, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, shatterable, shattery, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wimpy, wishy-washy, wispy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | gutless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timid |
| Synonyms: | abject, chicken*, chicken-hearted, coward, cowardly, craven, faint-hearted, feeble, irresolute, lily-livered, pusillanimous, spineless, submissive, weak, wimpy, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, gutsy, resolute |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconsequential/inconsiderable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of no significance |
| Synonyms: | casual, dinky, entry-level, exiguous, immaterial, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsequent, insignificant, insufficient, light, little, measly, minor, negligible, paltry, petty, picayune, puny, runt, scanty, shoestring, skimpy, small, small potatoes, small-time, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unconsidered, unimportant, wimpy, worthless |
| Antonyms: | consequential, considerable, important, significant |
| Main Entry: | irresolute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indecisive |
| Synonyms: | changing, doubtful, doubting, faltering, fearful, fickle, fluctuating, halfhearted, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hot-and-cold, infirm, on-the-fence, shaky, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, waffling, wavering, weak, weak-kneed, wimpy, wishy-washy, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | definite, determined, obstinate, resolute, stubborn, unyielding, willful |
| Main Entry: | languid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drooping, dull, listless |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, blahs, comatose, dopey, easy, energyless, enervated, faint, feeble, heavy, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, infirm, lackadaisical, laid-back, languishing, languorous, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, limp, moony, nebbish, phlegmatic, pining, sickly, sleepyhead, slow, sluggish, snoozy, spiritless, supine, torpid, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unhurried, uninterested, weak, weary, wimpy |
| Notes: | languid is limp or listless; limpid means clear or calm |
| Antonyms: | alert, animated, energetic, lively, spirited, vivacious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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