| Main Entry: | weakling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has no strength |
Synonyms: |
baby, chicken heart, chicken*, coward, cream puff, crybaby, dotard, invertebrate, jellyfish, misfit, pushover, wimp*, yellow belly |
Antonyms: |
strongman |
| Main Entry: | coward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is scared, easily intimidated |
Synonyms: |
alarmist, baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, funk, gutless, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, malingerer, mouse, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit, recreant, scaredy cat, shirk, shirker, skulker, sneak, weakling, white liver, wimp*, yellow belly, yellow* |
Antonyms: |
aggressor, hero |
| Main Entry: | craven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | timid person |
Synonyms: |
caitiff, chicken*, coward, dastard, fraidy cat, nebbish, poltroon, quitter, recreant, scaredy cat, weakling, wheyface, wimp*, wuss, yellow belly |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | patsy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fall guy |
Synonyms: |
boob*, chump, doormat, dupe, easy mark, fool, goat, gull, pigeon, pushover, sap*, scapegoat, schmuck, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
| Main Entry: | sap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid person |
Synonyms: |
chump, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, jerk, nitwit, patsy, pigeon, simpleton, sucker, weakling |
| Main Entry: | scapegoat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes blame for |
Synonyms: |
another's action boob, chump, doormat, dupe, easy mark, fall guy, fool, goat, gull, mark*, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sacrifice, sap*, schmuck, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
| Main Entry: | lame duck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elected official waiting to leave office |
Synonyms: |
crumbling power, holdover, incumbent, loser, weak administration, weakling |