chicken-hearted
chicken-hearted adjective: not brave; lacking courage; cowardly.
Adjective
chicken-hearted (comparative more chicken-hearted, superlative most chicken-hearted)
- Not brave; lacking courage; cowardly.
- This chicken-hearted couple, by the light of a rush-candle that burned on the hearth, seeing a stranger burst into the chamber, in such a terrible attitude, were seized with consternation […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- hen-hearted, backboneless, base, soft, bitch-ass, boneless, caitiff, candy-assed, chicken, chicken-livered
- Antonyms:
- lionhearted, adventurous, mettlesome, aweless, bad, bold, brass-balled, chivalrous, courageous, daredevil
chicken-hearted meaning in Tamil and Bengali
chicken-hearted in Tamil
- அஞ்சி ஓடும், துணிவற்ற, நெஞ்சுரமற்ற, கோழைத்தனமான
chicken-hearted in Bengali
- ভীরু, মনোবলহীন
Synonyms of chicken-hearted
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- chickenshit
- courageless
- cowardly
- cowardy
- cowhearted
- cowish
- craven
- cravenhearted
- cringey
- dastard
- dastardly
- dickless
- dough-faced
- fainthearted
- fearful
- fraidy
- gizzardless
- invertebrate
- gutless
- kiasi
- lily-livered
- liver-faced
- low-hearted
- milk-livered
- mouse-hearted
- mousy
- nerveless
- nutless
- pigeon-livered
- poltroonish
Antonyms
Forms of chicken-hearted
| comparative | more chicken-hearted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most chicken-hearted |
Origin of chicken-hearted
From chicken + hearted, after chicken heart. Compare hen-hearted.
Words formed from chicken-hearted
Questions about chicken-hearted
- What does chicken-hearted mean?
- Chicken-hearted means not brave; lacking courage; cowardly.
- What is chicken-hearted in Tamil?
- Chicken-hearted in Tamil is அஞ்சி ஓடும், துணிவற்ற, நெஞ்சுரமற்ற. See Chicken-hearted meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chicken-hearted?
- Chicken-hearted is an adjective.
Words near chicken-hearted in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chicken-hearted (page history and authors); chicken-hearted (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chicken-hearted (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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