Chicken-livered
Chicken-livered adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: a chicken-livered newspaper editor who has been afraid to take on the town's powerful business elite
Fainthearted and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fainthearted" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Fainthearted
Fainthearted adjective - Easily frightened.
Usage example: the sport of river rafting is not for those who are fainthearted
Chicken-livered and fainthearted are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Fainthearted".
Nearby Word: faintheartedness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and fainthearted
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and fainthearted
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and fainthearted
- recreant and chicken-livered
- recreant and fainthearted
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and fainthearted
- shy and chicken-livered
- shy and fainthearted
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and fainthearted
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