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| Main Entry: | chicken |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person afraid to try something |
| Synonyms: | coward, craven, dastard, funk, poltroon, quitter, recreant, scaredy cat, yellow belly |
| Main Entry: | chicken |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farm fowl |
| Synonyms: | chick, cock, poultry, banty, barnyard fowl, biddy, capon, cock-a-doodle-do, cockalorum, cockerel, gump, heeler, hen, pullet, rooster |
| Main Entry: | cock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rooster |
| Synonyms: | chicken, capon, chanticleer, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockalorum, cockerel |
| Notes: | the male crab or lobster is a cock; the female, a hen |
| Main Entry: | coward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is scared, easily intimidated |
| Synonyms: | alarmist, baby*, caitiff, chicken*, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, funk, gutless*, malingerer, mouse*, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit*, recreant, shirk, shirker, sneak, weakling, wimp*, yellow*, chicken heart, chicken liver, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, scaredy cat, skulker, white liver, yellow belly |
| Antonyms: | aggressor, hero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | craven |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, timid |
| Synonyms: | chicken*, cowardly, dastardly, fearful, gutless, lily-livered*, mean-spirited, pusillanimous, scared, timorous, yellow*, poltroonish, weak-kneed, wimpish, wimpy, wussy, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, heroic, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | craven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | timid person |
| Synonyms: | caitiff, chicken*, coward, dastard, poltroon, quitter, recreant, weakling, wimp*, fraidy cat, nebbish, scaredy cat, wheyface, wuss, yellow belly |
* = 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, enervated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby*, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sickly, slight, tame, thin, unconvincing, weak, weakened, woozy*, zero*, emasculated, enfeebled, etiolated, out of gas, sapless, strengthless, vitiated, weakly, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frightened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very scared |
| Synonyms: | abashed, afraid, aghast, alarmed, anxious, chicken*, fearful, frozen, hung up*, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, mousy*, numb, petrified, shaky, sissy*, startled, terrified, uptight, yellow*, affrighted, butterflies, chicken-hearted, cowed, dismayed, have cold feet, having kittens, in a cold sweat, in a panic, in a sweat, jellyfish, panicky, pushing the panic button, rabbity, running scared, scared stiff, shivery, spooked, terror-stricken, terrorized, unnerved |
| Antonyms: | calm, happy, comforted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gutless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timid |
| Synonyms: | abject, chicken*, coward, cowardly, craven, feeble, irresolute, lily-livered*, pusillanimous, spineless*, submissive, weak, yellow*, chicken-hearted, faint-hearted, wimpy, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, gutsy, resolute |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | milksop |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coward |
| Synonyms: | baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, cry-baby, deserter, fraidy-cat, jellyfish, lily liver, momma's boy, namby-pamby, pansy, pantywaist, quitter, scaredy cat, sissy*, weakling, wimp, wuss, wussy, yellow, yellow belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | namby-pamby |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pansy |
| Synonyms: | baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, coward, cry-baby, fraidy-cat, jellyfish, lily liver, milksop, momma's boy, pantywaist, quitter, scaredy cat, sissy*, weakling, wimp, wuss, wussy, yellow, yellow belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pantywaist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sissy |
| Synonyms: | baby*, chicken*, coward, cry-baby, fraidy-cat, milksop, momma's boy, namby-pamby, pansy, scaredy cat, weakling, wimp*, wuss, wussy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | powerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak; unable |
| Synonyms: | blank, chicken*, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, disabled, feeble, frail, gutless, helpless, impotent, incapable, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inert, infirm, paralyzed, passive, prostrate, subject, supine, tied, unarmed, unfit, vulnerable, wimp*, wishy-washy*, disenfranchised, etiolated, out of gas |
| Antonyms: | able, dominant, potent, powerful, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sissy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakling |
| Synonyms: | baby, chicken*, coward, cream puff, crybaby, cuckold, daisy, jellyfish, milksop, momma's boy, namby-pamby, pansy, pantywaist*, pushover, wimp*, wuss, yellow belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weakling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has no strength |
| Synonyms: | baby, chicken*, coward, cream puff, crybaby, misfit, pushover, wimp*, chicken heart, dotard, invertebrate, jellyfish, yellow belly |
| Antonyms: | strongman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wimp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakling |
| Synonyms: | baby, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, coward, cream puff, crybaby, daisy, featherweight*, fraidy-cat, jellyfish, lily liver, loser, milksop, momma's boy, namby-pamby, pansy, pantywaist*, puppy*, pushover, scaredy-cat, schlemiel*, sissy, wuss, wussy, yellow belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nervous Nellie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very nervous person |
| Synonyms: | chicken, pantywaist, wimp, a bundle of nerves, fraidy cat, nervous wreck, worrier, worrywart, wuss |
| Main Entry: | weak sister |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak member of group |
| Synonyms: | chicken, weakling, gutless wonder, hothouse plant, invertebrate, jellyfish, meek soul, softy, weak soul |
| Main Entry: | poultry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fowl |
| Synonyms: | chicken, duck, barnyard fowls, domestic fowl, domesticated birds, pullets, turkey |
| Main Entry: | fearful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alarmed, apprehensive |
| Synonyms: | afraid, aghast, agitated, anxious, chicken, diffident, disturbed, fainthearted, frightened, hesitant, intimidated, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, mousy, nerveless, nervous, nervy, perturbed, phobic, pusillanimous, scared, shaky, sheepish*, shrinking, shy, skittish, solicitous, spineless, tense, timid, timorous, tremulous, uneasy, unmanly, worried, yellow*, aflutter, chickenhearted, discomposed, disquieted, goose-bumpy, have cold feet, in a dither, panicky, quivery, rabbity, running scared, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, unafraid, inapprehensive, unfearful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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