Faint-heart

Synonyms for "faint-heart" (70 found)

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Closest matches (14)

afraid cowardly timid timorous abulic anxious chicken chickenhearted coward cowed

Adjective(4 words)

afraid boneless chicken-hearted cowardly

Strong matches (21)

Adjective(4 words)

craven dastardly gutless heartless

daunted dismayed faint faint hearted fearful feeble feebleminded frail funking funky henhearted infirm intimidated invertebrate lily livered

Adjective(2 words)

faint faint-hearted

Related words (35)

lily-livered meek milk-livered milksoppish milksoppy mousy overtimid overtimorous panic-prone panicky pigeonhearted pliable pusillanimous rabbity shy sissified sissy soft spineless unmanly

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unmanned weak weak kneed weak minded weak-kneed weak-minded weak-willed weakhearted white-livered yellow

Adjective(4 words)

meek nithing ratlike timid

Adjective(1 words)

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Beowulf had scarcely died before the faint-hearts came crawling out of their burrows.

Source: wiktionary

We are going to need all forces in the conditions that we have to face, and in the fight that we have before us we want no half-hearted supporters, no vacillators, no faint-hearts.

Source: wiktionary

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