Synonyms of the word

chickenhearted

• adj. Alternative form of chicken-hearted.

chicken

• n. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
• n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• n. (countable, slang) A coward.
• n. (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
• n. (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
• n. The game of dare.
• adj. (informal) Cowardly.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

cowardly

• adj. Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; basely or weakly fearful.
• adv. (archaic) In the manner of a coward, cowardlily.

fearful

• adj. Frightening.
• adj. (now rare) Frightened, filled with terror.
• adj. Tending to fear.
• adj. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.

lily-livered

• adj. (idiomatic) Cowardly, lacking bravery.

white-livered

• adj. Archaic form of lily-livered.

yellow

• adj. Having yellow as its colour.
• adj. (informal) Lacking courage.
• adj. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
• adj. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
• adj. (dated, US) High yellow.
• adj. (Britain, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
• n. The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting…
• n. (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that…
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
• n. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally…
• n. (sports) A yellow card.
• v. (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

yellow-bellied

• adj. Of an animal or reptile having a yellow underside or belly.
• adj. (figuratively) Uncourageous, cowardly.