Exact Match:
- pusillanimous
- lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- craven
collapse - 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- fearful
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- experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
- extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" related words >
- aflutter,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- alarming,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- appalling,
- apprehensive,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- awing,
- baleful,
- bashful,
- bothered,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- chilling,
- concerned,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- daunting,
- deadly,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diffident,
- dire,
- direful,
- discomposed,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disgusting,
- disheartening,
- dismayed,
- dismaying,
- disquieted,
- disquieting,
- disturbed,
- dreadful,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- foreboding,
- formidable,
- frightened,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- funking,
- funky,
- ghastly,
- goosy,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- heinous,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hideous,
- high-strung,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- howling,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in fear,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loathsome,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- malign,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- misgiving,
- monstrous,
- mousy,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overawing,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- overwhelming,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- perturbed,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- redoubtable,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rousing,
- scared,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shocking,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinister,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- solicitous,
- startling,
- startlish,
- strained,
- sublime,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- terrified,
- terrifying,
- terror-stricken,
- thumping,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremendous,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unspeakable,
- unwilling,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- whacking,
- white-livered,
- yellow,
- zealous
- tame
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- flat and uninspiring
- brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
- very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"
- correct by punishment or discipline related words >
- abate,
- abeyant,
- acclimate,
- acclimatize,
- accommodate,
- accustom,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- amenable,
- apathetic,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- bank the fire,
- bed,
- bed down,
- biddable,
- bland,
- blunt,
- boring,
- break,
- break in,
- break to harness,
- bridle,
- broken,
- brush,
- bust,
- busted,
- calm,
- case harden,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- chasten,
- chastened,
- compliant,
- condition,
- confirm,
- constrain,
- control,
- cowardly,
- curb,
- curry,
- currycomb,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- dead,
- deaden,
- diminish,
- disciplined,
- docile,
- domestic,
- domesticate,
- domesticated,
- domesticize,
- domiciliate,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- dovelike,
- downplay,
- drench,
- dull,
- establish,
- extenuate,
- familiarize,
- fearless,
- feeble,
- feed,
- fix,
- flat,
- fodder,
- foul,
- gentle,
- groggy,
- groom,
- habituate,
- handle,
- harden,
- harness,
- heavy,
- hitch,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- housebroken,
- humble,
- humdrum,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- ineffectual,
- inert,
- insipid,
- inure,
- judicious,
- keep within bounds,
- lamblike,
- languid,
- languorous,
- latent,
- lay,
- leaden,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lifeless,
- lighten,
- lily-livered,
- litter,
- logy,
- manage,
- master,
- meek,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- milk,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- mute,
- naturalize,
- nonviolent,
- obedient,
- obtund,
- ordinary,
- orient,
- orientate,
- pacific,
- pacifistic,
- pacify,
- palliate,
- passive,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- phlegmatic,
- play down,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- prosaic,
- prudent,
- pusillanimous,
- quiet,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- restrain,
- rub down,
- run-of-the-mill,
- saddle,
- season,
- sedentary,
- slack,
- slacken,
- sleeping,
- slow down,
- sluggish,
- slumbering,
- smoldering,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soft,
- soften,
- stagnant,
- standing,
- static,
- stifle,
- subdue,
- subdued,
- subjugate,
- submissive,
- suppress,
- suppressed,
- suspended,
- tamed,
- tedious,
- temper,
- temperate,
- tend,
- timid,
- timorous,
- tiresome,
- tone down,
- torpid,
- tractable,
- train,
- trained,
- tune down,
- unafraid,
- unaroused,
- unassertive,
- underplay,
- unexciting,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- vapid,
- water,
- weaken,
- white-livered,
- wishy-washy,
- wont,
- yellow,
- yoke
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