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

While gold is off its record highs from early this year, its price of around $4,400 per ounce is still well elevated versus history, with Goldman Sachs forecasting the yellow metal to reach $4,900 by year-end on the back of central bank buying.

— Joanna Ossinger, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
This pass map shows the dangerous positions Rashford has put Shaw into with the ball (yellow arrows) — three are in the box and two are on the edge of it.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 9 Sep. 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

She was especially hurt that some of the people who criticized Cox most harshly, dismissing him as craven and disingenuous, were those who had the closest relationships with him.

— McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
Not an inspiration for craven pundits and politicians to use players as divisive avatars.

— Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of craven

Adjective

The cowardly, devious Turgeniev has assimilated to the comforts of the West —that alone is enough for Fyodor to detest him.

— Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
What’s left is a vaguely political YouTube series afraid of its own tail, incapable of being actually relatable and too cowardly to own the batshit truths of these people’s lives.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 26 Aug. 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

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