Chickenhearted: alternatives and connections

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

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White-livered; cowardly.

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Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.

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Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is be…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.