From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spineless \Spine"less\, adjective
1. Having no spine, or vertebral column.
2. Having no thorns or barbs. [PJC]
3. lacking in strength of character; cowardly, in a physical or moral sense. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: weak in willpower [syn: {namby-pamby}, {wishy-washy}]
2: lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" [syn: {gutless}] [ant: {gutsy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "spineless": 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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