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chicken
Synonyms and Antonyms of chicken
- too chicken to go through with the stunt
chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow
brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous
- just concentrate on the important duties of the job and forget about the chicken stuff
chicken
Synonyms and Antonyms of chicken
- a staunch hawk during the drumbeat for war, he proved to be a chicken when it came to actually fighting it
cream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy [slang], weakling, wimp
ostrich, scaramouch (or scaramouche)
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