 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fainthearted
adjective: lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart
ne'er won fair lady" [syn: {faint}, {timid}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Faint-hearted \Faint"-heart'ed\, adjective
Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or
frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. --Is. vii. 4.
-- {Faint"-heart'ed*ly}, adverb -- {Faint"-heart'ed*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "faint-hearted":
afraid, chicken, cowardly, diffident, faint, feckless, feeble,
frightened, ineffectual, irresolute, lily-livered, puny,
pusillanimous, scared, shy, timid, timorous, weak, white-livered
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "fainthearted":
abulic, afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed,
daunted, dismayed, faint, fearful, feeble, feebleminded, frail,
funking, funky, henhearted, infirm, intimidated, invertebrate,
lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy,
overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted,
pliable, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, spineless, timid,
timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded,
weak-willed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow
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