WEAKHEARTED Synonyms: 101 Similar and Opposite Words

weakhearted

adjective

Definition of weakhearted

as in poor-spirited

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Adjective

Whoomp, whoomp bumped the coward heart.

— James Arthur, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2026

Definition of coward

Adjective

The 50 walleyes also have yellow tags with contact information, just in case they are caught by a lucky angler.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
Scheffler had not seen conditions like this — a combination of yellow and brown, which translates to firm and fiery in a links vocabulary.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026

Definition of yellow

Adjective

Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.

— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.

— A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025

Definition of pusillanimous

Adjective

Or maybe the problem is Cape Fear itself for being too cowardly to commit to the certainty that drove the previous versions of this story.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
But even the most perfect Constitution can be undone by the wicked with the help of the bought, the stupid, and the cowardly.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

Definition of cowardly

Adjective

Yes, Arsenal fan Neel from New Delhi held his nerve on the final day to shake off the persistent and heroic challenge of six-year-old Wilfred — and the meandering, distinctly unheroic challenge of a 51-year-old journalist.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 26 May 2026
That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.

— Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024

Definition of unheroic

Adjective

Going to the theatre in that period was hardly an entertainment for the fainthearted, and calamity was not confined to the stage.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Breaking down a whole raw chicken is not for the fainthearted, but the results can be mouthwatering.

— Sarah Schutte, National Review, 6 July 2025

Definition of fainthearted

Adjective

All that was left was a single high heel, no doubt dislodged after the host put up an epic struggle against her dastardly kidnapper.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
Saving people from dastardly supervillains and disastrous earthquakes, those are jobs for Superman.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of dastardly

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