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chicken

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of chicken

1 having or showing a shameful lack of courage

  • too chicken to go through with the stunt
Synonyms of chicken

chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow
Words Related to chicken

diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorous

afraid, frightened, scared

careful, cautious, wary

bashful, coy, shy

feeble, soft, unmanly, weak
Near Antonyms of chicken

audacious, bold, brazen, cheeky, nervy

plucky, spirited, spunky

determined, resolute
Antonyms of chicken

brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous

2 so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention

  • just concentrate on the important duties of the job and forget about the chicken stuff
Synonyms of chicken

de minimis, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, measly, Mickey Mouse, minute, negligible, niggling, no-account, nominal, paltry, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piddly, piffling, pimping, slight, trifling, trivial
Words Related to chicken

inferior, mean

imperceptible, inappreciable

little, puny, tiny

hairsplitting, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling

one-horse, small-fry, two-bit
Near Antonyms of chicken

serious, substantial, weighty

eventful, momentous, pivotal

conspicuous, noteworthy, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, striking

appreciable, discernible (also discernable), measurable
Antonyms of chicken

big, consequential, considerable, important, material, significant

chicken

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of chicken

a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger

  • a staunch hawk during the drumbeat for war, he proved to be a chicken when it came to actually fighting it
Synonyms of chicken

coward, craven, cur, dastard, funk, poltroon, recreant, sissy
Words Related to chicken

defeatist, quitter

cream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy [slang], weakling, wimp

caitiff, snake, sneak

ostrich, scaramouch (or scaramouche)
Near Antonyms of chicken

daredevil
Antonyms of chicken

hero, stalwart, valiant

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