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  • 81fearful — a. 1. Afraid, apprehensive, haunted with fear. 2. Timid, timorous, nervous, faint hearted, chicken hearted, white livered, cowardly, pusillanimous, showing the white feather, easily frightened. 3. Terrible, dreadful, frightful, dire, direful. 4.… …

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  • 82timid — a. 1. Timorous, fearful, skittish, shy, cowardly, pusillanimous, faint hearted, chicken hearted, easily frightened. 2. Diffident, bashful, retiring, coy, shrinking, blushing, shame faced, over modest …

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  • 83cowardly — I. a. Pusillanimous, dastardly, craven, fearful, timorous, timid, coward, recreant, base, faint hearted, chicken hearted white livered, showing the white feather. II. ad. Pusillanimously, timorously, basely, meanly, cravenly …

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  • 84cowardly — adjective he made a cowardly dash for the exit, leaving everyone else behind Syn: faint hearted, lily livered, spineless, chicken hearted, craven, timid, timorous, fearful, pusillanimous; informal yellow, chicken, weak kneed, gutless, yellow… …

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  • 85craven — adjective a craven surrender Syn: cowardly, lily livered, faint hearted, chicken hearted, spineless, timid, timorous, fearful, pusillanimous, weak, feeble; informal yellow, chicken, weak kneed, gutless, yellow bellied, wimpish; contemptible, a …

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  • 86feeble — adjective 1) he was very old and feeble Syn: weak, weakly, weakened, frail, infirm, delicate, sickly, ailing, unwell, poorly, enfeebled, enervated, debilitated, incapacitated, decrepit, etiolated …

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  • 87spineless — adjective Flora could have smacked him for being so spineless Syn: weak, weak willed, weak kneed, feeble, soft, ineffectual, irresolute, indecisive; cowardly, timid, timorous, fearful, faint hearted, pusillanimous, craven, unmanly, namby pamby,… …

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  • 88afraid — adj 1. frightened, fearful, fearsome, scared, Archaic. affrighted; terrified, panic stricken, terror stricken; apprehensive, alarmed, worried, uneasy, disquieted; distrustful, dreading, shrinking; tense, nervous, panicky, faint hearted; tremulous …

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  • 89cowardly — adj craven, poltroon, dastardly, base, recreant, Archaic. niddering, Archaic. caitiff; pusillanimous, timorous, timid, fearful, afraid, frightened, afraid of one s shadow, not having the heart, unmanly, faint hearted, lily livered, white livered …

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  • 90craven — adj 1. cowardly, poltroon, dastardly, base, recreant, Archaic. niddering, Archaic. caitiff; pusillanimous, timorous, timid, fearful, afraid, frightened, afraid of one s shadow, faint hearted, lily livered, white livered, Inf. chicken hearted, Inf …

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