weakhearted

adjective

Definition of weakheartednext
as in poor-spirited

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weakhearted
  1. coward
  2. yellow
  3. pusillanimous
  4. craven
  5. cowardly
  6. unheroic
  7. fainthearted
  8. dastardly
Adjective
  • Whoomp, whoomp bumped the coward heart.
    — James Arthur, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of coward
Adjective
  • Flávio Bolsonaro addressed the press and a small group of supporters, including some wearing green and yellow Brazil jerseys and one woman wrapped in the Israeli flag, outside his Brasilia house.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • However, if interest expense continues to outpace income growth while unemployment rises, real wages cool, and delinquencies broaden, the signal will turn from yellow to red.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 4 Oct. 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
  • Did my eyes widen, revealing a craven journalist ready to pounce on an exclusive?
    — Jason Sheeler, InStyle, 9 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of craven
Adjective
  • To know that a torture as violent as rape is about to happen ‘upstairs’ and not do ANYTHING ABOUT IT, is sick, cowardly and cold.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In the case stood the cowardly lion's costume from the original film The Wizard of Oz from 1938.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 22 Sep. 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
  • The John Steinbeck saga gets an extended treatment, this time starring Florence Pugh as the dastardly Cathy Ames.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Thoma Bravo, the firm that brought you most of these enterprise software bonds that were sliced into these aforementioned pieces of dastardly paper, is back at it again, talking a big game and looking for big deals.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of dastardly
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“Weakhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakhearted. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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