Exact Match:
- craven
- lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser
Related Words:
- poltroon
collapse - an abject coward
- characterized by complete cowardliness related words >
- afraid,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- funking,
- funky,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- poltroonish,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- spunkless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- coward
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- a person who shows fear or timidity
- English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) related words >
- Milquetoast,
- Scaramouch,
- baby,
- big baby,
- caitiff,
- chicken,
- chicken liver,
- craven,
- dastard,
- fraid-cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- funk,
- funker,
- gutless,
- invertebrate,
- jellyfish,
- lily liver,
- lily-livered,
- milksop,
- mouse,
- poltroon,
- poltroonish,
- pusillanimous,
- quitter,
- recreant,
- scaredy-cat,
- sissy,
- spunkless,
- unmanly,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- white feather,
- white liver
- unmanly
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- not possessing qualities befitting a man related words >
- afraid,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- effeminate,
- epicene,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- funking,
- funky,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- muliebrous,
- old-womanish,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- poltroon,
- prissy,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sissyish,
- soft,
- spunkless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- womanish,
- yellow
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- aloof,
- apathetic,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- chicken,
- comatose,
- coward,
- craven,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- disinterested,
- dull,
- gritless,
- gutless,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- hopeless,
- in a stupor,
- indifferent,
- insouciant,
- languid,
- lethargic,
- lily-livered,
- listless,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- poltroon,
- poltroonish,
- pusillanimous,
- resigned,
- slack,
- sluggish,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- stoic,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- torpid,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- uncourageous,
- undaring,
- ungallant,
- unheroic,
- uninterested,
- unintrepid,
- unmanly,
- unsoldierlike,
- unsoldierly,
- unvaliant,
- unvalorous,
- withdrawn
- gutless
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- lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" related words >
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bloodless,
- chicken,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- craven,
- debilitated,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- effete,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- faintish,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- gone,
- gritless,
- heartless,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lily-livered,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- nerveless,
- pithless,
- pluckless,
- poltroonish,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- pusillanimous,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- soft,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- strengthless,
- uncourageous,
- undaring,
- ungallant,
- unhardened,
- unheroic,
- unintrepid,
- unmanly,
- unnerved,
- unsoldierlike,
- unsoldierly,
- unstrung,
- unvaliant,
- unvalorous,
- weak,
- weakly
- sneak
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- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner; "sneak a look"; "sneak a cigarette" related words >
- arrant coward,
- blackguard,
- caitiff,
- clandestine,
- couch,
- covert,
- cower,
- craven,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cringe,
- crouch,
- cur,
- dastard,
- devil,
- fink,
- furtive,
- glide,
- go on tiptoe,
- grass,
- grovel,
- gumshoe,
- heel,
- hole-and-corner,
- hush-hush,
- inch,
- inch along,
- informer,
- knave,
- lay wait,
- lie in wait,
- louse,
- lurk,
- nark,
- nightwalk,
- pad,
- poltroon,
- precious rascal,
- prowl,
- pussyfoot,
- quail,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- recreant,
- reptile,
- rogue,
- run,
- scalawag,
- scamp,
- scoundrel,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- shadow,
- shirk,
- shithead,
- shyster,
- sidle,
- skulk,
- skunk,
- slide,
- slink,
- slip,
- slither,
- sly,
- smuggle,
- snake,
- sneaker,
- snitch,
- snook,
- spalpeen,
- stalk,
- steal,
- steal along,
- stealthy,
- stoolie,
- surreptitious,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- toad,
- undercover,
- villain,
- weasel,
- worm,
- worm along
- timid
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- people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
- showing fear and lack of confidence related words >
- afraid,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- cautious,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- coy,
- craven,
- daunted,
- demure,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- humble,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- intimidated,
- jibbing,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- modest,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- retiring,
- scared,
- scary,
- scrupling,
- self-conscious,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- afraid
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- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement; "I'm afraid I won't be able to come"; "he was afraid he would have to let her go"; "I'm afraid you're wrong"
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity; "She was afraid that I might be embarrassed"; "terribly afraid of offending someone"; "I am afraid we have witnessed only the first phase of the conflict"
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness; "afraid of hard work"; "afraid to show emotion" related words >
- abulic,
- afeared,
- aghast,
- anxious,
- apologetic,
- apprehensive,
- averse,
- backward,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- edgy,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- fear-struck,
- feared,
- fearful,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- frail,
- frightened,
- fritter,
- funking,
- funky,
- haunted with fear,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- indisposed,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loath,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pliable,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- regretful,
- reluctant,
- rueful,
- scared,
- scared to death,
- scary,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittish,
- soft,
- sorry,
- spineless,
- spooked,
- terrified,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uneager,
- unhappy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unwilling,
- wary,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- funk
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- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
- a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk" related words >
- Milquetoast,
- abject fear,
- affright,
- alarm,
- awe,
- baby,
- back out,
- big baby,
- blench,
- blink,
- blue funk,
- boggle,
- change color,
- chicken,
- chicken liver,
- chicken out,
- consternation,
- coward,
- cowardice,
- craven,
- cringe,
- curdle the blood,
- dastard,
- desert under fire,
- dismay,
- disquiet,
- draw back,
- dread,
- falter,
- fear,
- flinch,
- fraid-cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- freeze,
- fright,
- frighten,
- funk out,
- funker,
- get cold feet,
- grow pale,
- horrification,
- horripilate,
- horror,
- invertebrate,
- jellyfish,
- lily liver,
- lose courage,
- make one tremble,
- milksop,
- mouse,
- pale,
- panic,
- panic fear,
- phobia,
- poltroon,
- quail,
- quitter,
- raise apprehensions,
- recoil,
- reek,
- scare,
- scaredy-cat,
- scuttle,
- shake,
- shrink,
- sissy,
- skedaddle,
- spook,
- stagger,
- stampede,
- startle,
- stench,
- stink,
- take alarm,
- take fright,
- terror,
- turn color,
- turn pale,
- unholy dread,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstring,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- white feather,
- white liver,
- wince
- recreant
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- having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper" related words >
- Sabbath-breaker,
- apostate,
- arrant coward,
- atheist,
- atheistic,
- backslider,
- backsliding,
- bad egg,
- bad lot,
- base,
- black sheep,
- blackguardly,
- blasphemer,
- blasphemous,
- bolter,
- caitiff,
- collaborationist,
- collaborative,
- collaborator,
- convert,
- craven,
- dastard,
- dastardly,
- defector,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- derelict,
- deserter,
- disaffected,
- disloyal,
- dunghill,
- dunghilly,
- faithless,
- fallen,
- fallen angel,
- fallen from grace,
- false,
- fickle,
- fifth columnist,
- impious,
- inconstant,
- infamous,
- irreligious,
- irreverent,
- knavish,
- lapsed,
- lecher,
- lost sheep,
- lost soul,
- miscreant,
- mugwump,
- not true to,
- notorious,
- of bad faith,
- perfidious,
- pervert,
- pimp,
- poltroon,
- poltroonish,
- profanatory,
- profane,
- profligate,
- proselyte,
- pusillanimous,
- quisling,
- rascally,
- rat,
- recidivist,
- recidivistic,
- renegade,
- renegado,
- renegate,
- reprobate,
- reversionist,
- roguish,
- runagate,
- sacrilegious,
- sacrilegist,
- scampish,
- scapegrace,
- schismatic,
- scoundrelly,
- seceder,
- secessionist,
- separatist,
- sneak,
- sorry lot,
- strikebreaker,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- tergiversator,
- traitor,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- treasonable,
- treasonous,
- trollop,
- trothless,
- turnabout,
- turncoat,
- turntail,
- unbeliever,
- undutiful,
- unfaithful,
- unloyal,
- unsteadfast,
- untrue,
- vile,
- villainous,
- whore
- servile
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- submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work" related words >
- abject,
- abused,
- accepting,
- acquiescent,
- agreeable,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- assenting,
- attendant,
- attending,
- base,
- bootlicking,
- browbeaten,
- brown-nosing,
- client,
- common,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- consenting,
- craven,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- demeaning,
- dependent,
- despicable,
- disadvantaged,
- downtrod,
- downtrodden,
- fawning,
- feudal,
- feudatory,
- flattering,
- ground down,
- groveling,
- helping,
- henpecked,
- humble,
- ignoble,
- in leading strings,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- ingratiating,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- liege,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- mean,
- mean-spirited,
- menial,
- ministering,
- minor,
- misused,
- modest,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- oppressed,
- ordered around,
- ordinary,
- overborne,
- passive,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- regimented,
- resigned,
- scurvy,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- serving,
- servitorial,
- slavish,
- slimy,
- smarmy,
- sordid,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- submissive,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- supine,
- sycophantic,
- sycophantish,
- third rank,
- third string,
- toadish,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- trampled,
- tributary,
- truckling,
- tyrannized,
- ugly,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- unctuous,
- underprivileged,
- unmanned,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- vassal,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- waiting,
- wheedling
- cowardly
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- lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley related words >
- abulic,
- afraid,
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bashful,
- bloodless,
- caitiff,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowed,
- craven,
- dastardly,
- daunted,
- debilitated,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- effete,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- faintish,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- frail,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- gone,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- in fear,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jumpy,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lily-livered,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- namby-pamby,
- nerveless,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pithless,
- pliable,
- poltroon,
- poltroonish,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- recreant,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- scared,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinewless,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- slack,
- soft,
- spineless,
- spunkless,
- startlish,
- strengthless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unhardened,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- vile,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- weakly,
- white-livered,
- worthless,
- yellow
- spineless
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- lacking spiny processes; "spineless fins" related words >
- abulic,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- afraid,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bloodless,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- chicken,
- cowardly,
- craven,
- dastardly,
- debilitated,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- eccentric,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- erratic,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- faintish,
- fast and loose,
- fearful,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floppy,
- fluctuating,
- forceless,
- frail,
- freakish,
- giddy,
- gone,
- gutless,
- imbecile,
- impetuous,
- impotent,
- impulsive,
- inadequate,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- infirm,
- invertebrate,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lily-livered,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- nerveless,
- pithless,
- pliable,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- pusillanimous,
- rambling,
- restless,
- roving,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- scatterbrained,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- soft,
- spasmodic,
- spiritless,
- squeamish,
- strengthless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unstrung,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakly,
- whimsical,
- white-livered,
- wishy-washy,
- yellow
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