The elephant was alone and fainthearted.
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Fainthearted
Synonyms for "fainthearted" (70 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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Antonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
9 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 18 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄθυμος adj (lacking courage, timid)
Bulgarian
2 entries- малодушен adj (lacking courage, timid)
- страхлив adj (lacking courage, timid)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 无勇气的 adj (lacking courage, timid)
- 無勇氣的 /无勇气的 adj (lacking courage, timid)
- 膽怯 /胆怯 adj (lacking courage, timid)
Danish
2 entries- forsagt adj (lacking courage, timid)
- frygtsom adj (lacking courage, timid)
French
1 entries- timoré adj (lacking courage, timid)
German
4 entries- feige adj (lacking courage, timid)
- furchtsam adj (lacking courage, timid)
- mutlos adj (lacking courage, timid)
- schüchtern adj (lacking courage, timid)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌹𐍃 adj (lacking courage, timid)
Hungarian
1 entries- bátortalan adj (lacking courage, timid)
Japanese
1 entries- 勇気のない adj (lacking courage, timid)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- жүрөгү жок adj (lacking courage, timid)
- коркок adj (lacking courage, timid)
Manx
1 entries- faase-chreeagh adj (lacking courage, timid)
Māori
4 entries- harotu adj (lacking courage, timid)
- hopī adj (lacking courage, timid)
- hōpīpī adj (lacking courage, timid)
- tunutunu adj (lacking courage, timid)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forknytt adj (lacking courage, timid)
Russian
4 entries- боязли́вый adj (lacking courage, timid)
- малоду́шный adj (lacking courage, timid)
- ро́бкий adj (lacking courage, timid)
- сла́бый духом adj (lacking courage, timid)
Spanish
3 entries- apocado adj (lacking courage, timid)
- medroso adj (lacking courage, timid)
- pusilánime adj (lacking courage, timid)
Swedish
4 entries- försagd adj (lacking courage, timid)
- klenmodig adj (lacking courage, timid)
- modlös adj (lacking courage, timid)
- nedslagen adj (lacking courage, timid)
Turkish
1 entries- ürkek adj (lacking courage, timid)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- bambun adj (lacking courage, timid)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Upon this, our guide, who, by the way, was but a fainthearted fellow, bid us keep in a ready posture, for he believed there were more wolves a-coming. We kept our arms ready, and our eyes about us...
Source: wiktionary
"Fainthearted knight! You should have stayed and covered my retreat. Hark! they are coming! Hide! Hide!" she panted, half in fear, half in merriment, as the gay pursuers rapidly drew nearer.
Source: wiktionary
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