| 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 |
| Main Entry: | mean-spirited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | base |
Synonyms: |
cowardly, mean, servile, timid, weak |
| Main Entry: | recreant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
Synonyms: |
afraid, apostate, arrant, base, cowering, craven, dastardly, defecting, disloyal, faithless, false, falsehearted, fearful, frightened, gutless, hesitant, low, mean-spirited, perfidious, pigeonhearted, scared, skulking, sneaking, spiritless, timid, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unmanly, vile, yellow*, yielding |
Antonyms: |
brave, courageous, loyal |
| Main Entry: | recreant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
Synonyms: |
cowardly, craven, disloyal, faithless, false, mean-spirited, pusillanimous, spiritless, untrue, yellow |