METTLESOME Antonyms

• lacking conviction or boldness or courage

• 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

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

• lacking self-confidence

• a quick throw

• short

• wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things

• start suddenly, as from fright

• throw quickly

• lacking a backbone or spinal column

• lacking spiny processes

• lacking courage or vitality

• lacking thorns

• showing fear and lack of confidence

• lacking self-confidence

• people who are fearful and cautious

• lacking conviction or boldness or courage

• 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