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| Main Entry: | cowardly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, base, caitiff, craven, dastardly, diffident, fainthearted, frightened, gutless, jittery, lily-livered*, nervous, paper tiger*, pusillanimous, recreant, retiring, scared, shrinking, shy, soft*, spineless*, timid, timorous, weak, worthless, yellow*, chicken-hearted, cowering, cowhearted, dismayed, having the willies, lacking courage, no guts, panicky, pigeonhearted, running scared, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, unafraid, undaunted, unfearful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | below the belt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | nastily and unfairly |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, dirty, dishonest, foul, unjust, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike |
| 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: | dastardly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten |
| Synonyms: | base, contemptible, cowardly, craven, despicable, low, mean, pusillanimous, underhanded, vile |
| Main Entry: | fainthearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timid |
| Synonyms: | afraid, cowardly, fearful, frightened, gutless, intimidated, lily-livered*, meek, mousy, spineless, weak, yellow*, cowed, cowering, having cold feet, unassertive, wimpy |
* = 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: | sneaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underhanded, dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, contemptible, cowardly, deceitful, devious, disingenuous, double-dealing*, duplicitous, furtive, indirect, low, malicious, mean, nasty, recreant, secretive, shifty, slippery, sly, snide, stealthy, surreptitious, tricky, underhand, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, yellow*, guileful, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, candid, forthright, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | timid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | afraid, ambivalent, apprehensive, bashful, capricious, cowardly, coy, demure, diffident, fainthearted, fearful, feeble, frightened, gentle, humble, intimidated, irresolute, modest, mousy, nervous, pusillanimous, retiring, shaky, shrinking, soft, spineless, spiritless, submissive, timid, timorous, vacillating, wavering, weak, yellow*, badgered, browbeaten, bullied, cowed, cowering, daunted, having cold feet, milquetoast, trembling, unassertive, unassured, unnerved |
| Notes: | timid is used of a person's character or disposition; timorous is used of a person's action or behavior |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, daring, extroverted, fearless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wishy-washy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bland, dull |
| Synonyms: | banal, cowardly, enervated, feeble, flat, flavorless, indecisive, ineffective, ineffectual, insipid, irresolute, jejune, languid, listless, mediocre, namby-pamby*, spiritless, tasteless, thin, vacillating, vapid, watered-down, watery, wavering, weak, characterless, sapless, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | dynamic, exciting, interesting, lively |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cringing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | servile |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, obsequious, submissive, crouching |
| Main Entry: | mean-spirited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | base |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, mean, servile, timid, weak |
| Main Entry: | weak-willed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily swayed |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, gutless, soft, spineless, timid, weak, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, firm, strong |
| Main Entry: | afraid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful |
| Synonyms: | abashed, aghast, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, blanched, cowardly, discouraged, distressed, disturbed, frightened, frozen, horrified, intimidated, nervous, panic-stricken, perplexed, perturbed, petrified, scared, shocked, startled, stunned, suspicious, terrified, timid, timorous, upset, worried, aroused, cowed, daunted, disheartened, dismayed, faint-hearted, have cold feet, in awe, rattled, run scared, scared stiff, scared to death, spooked, terror-stricken, trembling |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, composed, confident, cool, courageous, fearless, heroic, intrepid, unafraid, undaunted, valiant |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tremulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | timid |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, fearful, jittery, nervous, shy, timorous, trembling |
| Antonyms: | brave, calm, confident |
| Main Entry: | unmanly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | weak |
| Synonyms: | afraid, cowardly, fainthearted, fearful, pusillanimous, timid |
| Antonyms: | manly, strong |
| Main Entry: | wormlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | cringing |
| Synonyms: | cowardly, servile, submissive |
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