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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, base, caitiff, chicken-hearted, cowering, cowhearted, craven, dastardly, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted, frightened, gutless, having the willies, jittery, lacking courage, lily-livered, nervous, no guts, panicky, paper tiger, pigeonhearted, pusillanimous, recreant, retiring, running scared, scared, shrinking, shy, soft*, spineless, timid, timorous, weak, weak-kneed, worthless, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, unafraid, undaunted, unfearful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | nerveless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scared to death |
| Synonyms: | afraid, cowardly, debilitated, enervated, fearful, feeble, nervous, petrified, spineless, timid, weak, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | brave, courageous, nervy, unafraid |
| Main Entry: | spineless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | amoebalike, faint-hearted, fearful, feeble, forceless, frightened, gutless, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, invertebrate, irresolute, lily-livered, nerveless, pithless, soft, spiritless, squeamish, submissive, timid, vacillating, weak, weak-kneed, weak-willed, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weak-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indecisive |
| Synonyms: | astraddle, changeable, hemming and hawing, hesitant, hesitating, indeterminate, irresolute, on the fence, spineless, tentative, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, waffling, wavering, weak-kneed, wishy-washy, without guts, yellow-bellied |
| Main Entry: | chickenhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | chicken, craven, faint-hearted, fearful, lily-livered, pusillanimous, spineless, timid, yellow, yellow-bellied |
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