chicken-hearted
31faint-hearted — Synonyms and related words: afraid, chicken, cowardly, diffident, faint, feckless, feeble, frightened, ineffectual, irresolute, lily livered, puny, pusillanimous, scared, shy, timid, timorous, weak, white livered …
32faint-hearted — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Ignobly lacking in courage: chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, lily livered, pusillanimous, unmanly. Slang: chicken, gutless, yellow, yellow bellied. See FEAR …
33cowardly — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking courage] Syn. timid, timorous, frightened, shrinking, afraid, fearful, shy, diffident, backward, retiring, cowering, apprehensive, nervous, anxious, full of dread, dismayed, fainthearted, panicky, scared, scary* …
34timid — adj 1. timorous, pusillanimous, fearful, fearsome, afraid, afraid of one s own shadow, frightened, scared, Inf. chicken, Inf. shaking in one s boots; unmanly, faint hearted, weak hearted, lily livered, white livered, having no backbone, with a… …
35soft — adj 1. plushlike, plushed, squashy, squishy, mushy, spongy; pulpy, pulpal, pulpous, pulplike, pul paceous, overripe, overmature; pappy, paplike, mashed, softened; thin, watery, runny, liquid; loamy, friable, crumbly; marshy, paludal, boggy,… …
36pusillanimous — adj timid, timorous, fearful, afraid, afraid of one s own shadow, frightened; unmanly, faint hearted, weak hearted, lily livered, white livered, having no backbone, with a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken hearted, Inf. chicken livered, Inf.… …
37yellow — adj 1. golden, gold, aureate, aurific, gilt; honey, xanthous, xanthic, butter, gambogian, quince yellow, zinc yellow, primrose; saffron, daffodil, topaz, banana, jonquil, cadmium yellow, canary yellow; lemon, citron, lutescent, luteous; tawny,… …
38craven — adj 1. cowardly, poltroon, dastardly, base, recreant, Archaic. niddering, Archaic. caitiff; pusillanimous, timorous, timid, fearful, afraid, frightened, afraid of one s shadow, faint hearted, lily livered, white livered, Inf. chicken hearted, Inf …
39milk-livered — adj cowardly, pusillanimous, poltroon, caitiff; weak kneed, Sl. chicken, Sl. gutless, skittish; faint hearted, chicken hearted, lily livered, chicken livered, Inf. mousy; sniveling, cringing, skulking, quailing, cowering; timid, timorous, shy,… …
40Cowardice — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Excess of fear. < N PARAG:Cowardice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 cowardice cowardice pusillanimity Sgm: N 1 cowardliness cowardliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 timidity timidity effeminacy GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 …
