| Main Entry: | cowardly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful |
Synonyms: |
afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, base, caitiff, chicken-hearted, cowering, cowhearted, craven, dastardly, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted, frightened, gutless, having the willies, jittery, lacking courage, lily-livered, nervous, no guts, panicky, paper tiger, pigeonhearted, pusillanimous, recreant, retiring, running scared, scared, shrinking, shy, soft*, spineless, timid, timorous, weak, weak-kneed, worthless, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, unafraid, undaunted, unfearful |
| 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: | gutless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timid |
Synonyms: |
abject, chicken*, chicken-hearted, coward, cowardly, craven, faint-hearted, feeble, irresolute, lily-livered, pusillanimous, spineless, submissive, weak, wimpy, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, courageous, gutsy, resolute |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | spineless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
Synonyms: |
amoebalike, faint-hearted, fearful, feeble, forceless, frightened, gutless, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, invertebrate, irresolute, lily-livered, nerveless, pithless, soft, spiritless, squeamish, submissive, timid, vacillating, weak, weak-kneed, weak-willed, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, strong |
| Main Entry: | weak-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indecisive |
Synonyms: |
astraddle, changeable, hemming and hawing, hesitant, hesitating, indeterminate, irresolute, on the fence, spineless, tentative, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, waffling, wavering, weak-kneed, wishy-washy, without guts, yellow-bellied |
| Main Entry: | chickenhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
Synonyms: |
chicken, craven, faint-hearted, fearful, lily-livered, pusillanimous, spineless, timid, yellow, yellow-bellied |