chicken-hearted
51yellow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fair, blond[e], flaxen, light haired (see color); Mongolian, Mongoloid; jaundiced; jealous, envious; informal, cowardly, craven, fearful, lily or white livered, afraid, unmanly, pusillanimous; lurid …
52base — I n 1. stand, pedestal, rest, bed; support, prop, stay, brace; bottom, foot, Fr. fond, Archit. socle, Archit. plinth, Bot. caudex; foundation, principle, basis, footing, groundwork, substructure, substratum, understructure. 2. principal, essence …
53timid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fearful, cowardly, afraid, fainthearted, timorous; shrinking, bashful, shy, retiring, diffident; irresolute, hesitant; weak. See fear, modesty. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Cowardly] Syn. fainthearted …
54gutless — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. cowardly, timid, fearful, mousy, *wimpy, fainthearted, spineless, *chicken, *yellow, *lily livered, weak. ANT.: brave, courageous, *gutsy, *ballsy II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Slang. Ignobly lacking in… …
55Cowardly — Cow ard*ly, a. 1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. [1913 Webster] The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting …
56fearful — a. 1. Afraid, apprehensive, haunted with fear. 2. Timid, timorous, nervous, faint hearted, chicken hearted, white livered, cowardly, pusillanimous, showing the white feather, easily frightened. 3. Terrible, dreadful, frightful, dire, direful. 4.… …
57timid — a. 1. Timorous, fearful, skittish, shy, cowardly, pusillanimous, faint hearted, chicken hearted, easily frightened. 2. Diffident, bashful, retiring, coy, shrinking, blushing, shame faced, over modest …
58cowardly — I. a. Pusillanimous, dastardly, craven, fearful, timorous, timid, coward, recreant, base, faint hearted, chicken hearted white livered, showing the white feather. II. ad. Pusillanimously, timorously, basely, meanly, cravenly …
59fearful — adj 1. dreadful, dread, terrifying, frightful, direful, appalling; terrible, grievous, grim, dire, baleful, dark; alarming, distressing, harrowing, rending; redoubtable, fearsome, formidable, awful; horrible, horrendous, monstrous, atrocious;… …
60irresolute — adj 1. doubtful, dubious, uncertain, shifting, unreliable; undecided, indecisive, undetermined, unresolved, wishy washy, hesitant, fickle, Sl. candy assed; infirm, vacillating, wavering, faltering, oscillating, shuffling, flickering, fitful,… …
