Craven

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by abject fear; cowardly.
  • n. A coward.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
  • n. A confessed coward.
  • v. To make craven.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.
  • n. A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See recreant, n.
  • v. To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Overcome; conquered; defeated. See to cry craven, below.
  • Cowardly; pusillanimous; mean-spirited.
  • to yield in submission; be defeated; fail.
  • n. A mean or base coward; a pusillanimous fellow; a dastard.
  • n. Synonyms Poltroon, Dastard, etc. See coward.
  • To make craven, recreant, weak, or cowardly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  • n. an abject coward
  • Equivalent
    cowardly    fearful   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coward   
    Form
    cravened    cravening    cry craven   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cowardly    faint-hearted    spiritless    coward    poltroon    dastard    quitter   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cavan    Laven    Raven    Sarajevan    graven    haven    maven    raven    shaven    unshaven   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dastardly    dastard    cowardly    pusillanimous    unmanly    recreant    contemptible    abject    white-livered    slothful