Meaning of FAINTHEARTED
| Pronunciation: | | 'feynt'hârtid
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" |
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| | Synonyms: | | coward(a), cowardly, faint, fearful, timid |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Faint"*heart`ed\, a.
Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or
frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. --Is. vii. 4.
-- {Faint"*heart`ed*ly}, adv. -- {Faint"*heart`ed*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, panicky, panic-prone, pigeonhearted, pliable, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, spineless, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weakhearted, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, white-livered, yellow |
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