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

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

When he’s described as cowardly in print by the ever-hovering gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Sarah Drew, Grey’s Anatomy), Stewart follows his instincts and enlists.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
That was scuttled after the Houthis launched cowardly and deadly attacks on civilian targets in Riyadh and other Saudi Arabian cities.

— Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 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

Who wants to be the last one still funding these data center projects, a dastardly term that encompasses a significant share of economic growth and the stock market?

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026
Lowen suspects that Verity (1) is telling the truth in her memoir and lying in the press footage online and (2) can actually walk and talk and is faking her illness for dastardly yet unclear reasons.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of dastardly

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