faint-hearted

faint-hearted
    adj 1: lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart
           ne'er won fair lady" [syn: {faint}, {fainthearted},
           {timid}, {faint-hearted}]
    

Faint-hearted \Faint"-heart`ed\, a.
   Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or
   frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
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         Fear not, neither be faint-hearted.      --Is. vii. 4.
   -- {Faint"-heart`ed*ly}, adv. -- {Faint"-heart`ed*ness}, n.
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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

    

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