Synonyms for craven
- adjective
- noun
All synonyms
Adjective
cowardly, spineless, fearful, gutless, dastardly, timid, yellow, dastard, base, lily-livered, pusillanimous, poltroonish, timorous, faint-hearted, invertebrate informal, chicken slang, white-livered dated
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
Related words
- Phrases
- cry craven
Forms
- Plural
- cravens → poltroons, recreants, cowards, funkers…
Example sentences
- fearful “People are very fearful of the virus,” he added.
- cowardly Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
- spineless Tom is a gutless, spineless, gormless, underachieving twat.
- gutless Tom is a gutless, spineless, gormless, underachieving twat.
- timid She seems oddly shy and timid for a press officer.
- dastardly These dastardly acts will not go unpunished.
By length
- 4 letters
- base1
- 5 letters
- timid2
- 6 letters
- yellow2, coward2, funker
- 7 letters
- chicken2, fearful2, gutless2, dastard, caitiff
- 8 letters
- cowardly3, timorous3, poltroon, recreant
- 9 letters
- spineless2, dastardly3
- 11 letters
- poltroonish
- 12 letters
- invertebrate4
- 13 letters
- pusillanimous5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (timid2 = 2 syllables).