Fainthearted

4 definitions found

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

  Faint-hearted \Faint"-heart`ed\, a.
     Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or
     frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Fear not, neither be faint-hearted.      --Is. vii. 4.


     -- {Faint"-heart`ed*ly}, adv. -- {Faint"-heart`ed*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fainthearted
       adj : lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart
             ne'er won fair lady" [syn: {faint}, {timid}]

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