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  • 91fearful — 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;… …

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  • 92milk-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,… …

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  • 93tame — adj 1. domesticated, tamed, broken, broken to harness, Sl. busted; trained, housebroken; (all of wild animals) gentle, fearless, unafraid. 2. docile, submissive, tractable, unresisting; meek, subdued, in harness, henpecked, tied to [s.o. s] apron …

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  • 94feeble — adjective 1) old and feeble Syn: weak, weakened, debilitated, enfeebled, frail, decrepit, infirm, delicate, sickly, ailing, unwell, poorly 2) a feeble argument Syn …

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  • 95Degenerate — De*gen er*ate, a. [L. degeneratus, p. p. of degenerare to degenerate, cause to degenerate, fr. degener base, degenerate, that departs from its race or kind; de + genus race, kind. See {Kin} relationship.] Having become worse than one s kind, or… …

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  • 96Fearful — Fear ful (f[=e]r f[.u]l), a. 1. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. [1913 Webster] Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst all their power. Bp. Warburton. [1913 Webster] 2. Inclined to fear; easily frightened;… …

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  • 97Pluckless — Pluck less, a. Without pluck; timid; faint hearted. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 98Timid — Tim id, a. [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.] Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. [1913 Webster] Poor is the triumph o er the… …

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  • 99Timidly — Timid Tim id, a. [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.] Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. [1913 Webster] Poor is the triumph o er …

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  • 100Timidness — Timid Tim id, a. [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.] Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. [1913 Webster] Poor is the triumph o er …

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