FAINT-HEARTED Synonyms

• quick to understand

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm

• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

• experiencing or showing fear

• causing fear or dread or terror

• extremely distressing

• timid by nature or revealing timidity

• pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness

• lacking strength or vigor

• lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

• lacking strength

• easily frightened

• of or relating to the nervous system

• easily agitated

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• excited in anticipation

• unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

• lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful

• inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

• vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze

• not secure; beset with difficulties

• lacking a backbone or spinal column

• lacking spiny processes

• lacking courage or vitality

• lacking thorns

• timid by nature or revealing timidity

• wanting in physical strength

• overly diluted; thin and insipid

• (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress

• wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings

• tending downward in price

• deficient or lacking in some skill

• lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

• (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection

• not having authority, political strength, or governing power

• deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc

• likely to fail under stress or pressure

• deficient in intelligence or mental power

• weak and ineffectual

• easily frightened

• a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

• deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• lacking strength or vigor

• weak and likely to lose consciousness

• indistinctly understood or felt or perceived

• lacking conviction or boldness or courage

• pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

• lacking conviction or boldness or courage