Spineless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spineless \Spine"less\, a.
     1. Having no spine, or vertebral column.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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]:

  spineless
       adj 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