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craven - 11 thesaurus results
| 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: | 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: | 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: | dastardly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten |
| Synonyms: | base, contemptible, cowardly, craven, despicable, low, mean, pusillanimous, underhanded, vile |
| 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: | ignoble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, unworthy |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, craven, dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean, menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, plebeian, poor, rotten, servile, shabby, shameful, simple, sordid, vile, vulgar, wicked, wretched, wrong, baseborn, scurvy, unwashed |
| Antonyms: | dignified, grand, high, honorable, noble, reputable, respectable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | servile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grovelling, subservient |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, craven, cringing, despicable, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, unctuous, bootlicking, eating crow, eating humble pie, sycophantic, toadying, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, dominant |
| Main Entry: | recreant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | afraid, apostate, arrant, base, craven, dastardly, disloyal, faithless, false, fearful, frightened, gutless, hesitant, low, mean-spirited, perfidious, scared, spiritless, timid, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unmanly, vile, yellow*, yielding, cowering, defecting, falsehearted, pigeonhearted, skulking, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | brave, courageous, loyal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | yellow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
| Synonyms: | chicken*, craven, deceitful, gutless, lily-livered*, low, offensive, pusillanimous, treacherous, tricky, unethical, unprincipled, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, confident |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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