gutless
gutless adjective: without a gut.
Adjective
gutless (not comparable)
- Without a gut.
- This approach was firstly used in a metagenomic context to study the microbial community associated with the gutless worm Olavius algarvensis.2015 November 16, Lanjuan Li, Infectious Microecology: Theory and Applications, Springer, →ISBN, page 213
- Cowardly; lacking courage or morals.
- No, you lied to me. You lied to me because you're gutless. You're a gutless drunken loser.1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi)
- Synonyms:
- backboneless, base, soft, bitch-ass, boneless, caitiff, candy-assed, chicken, chicken-hearted, chicken-livered
gutless meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
gutless in Tamil
- துணிச்சலின்மை
gutless in Urdu
- بےہمت, بےجگرا
gutless in Malayalam
- cowardly, spineless, faint-hearted
- ചങ്കൂറ്റമില്ലാത്ത, ധെെര്യമില്ലാത്ത, ദുർബ്ബലഹൃദയനായ, ദരക, ഭീരുവായ, ഹരിണഹൃദയ
Synonyms of gutless
- backboneless
- base
- soft
- bitch-ass
- boneless
- caitiff
- candy-assed
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- chicken-livered
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- chickenshit
- courageless
- cowardly
- cowardy
- cowhearted
- cowish
- craven
- cravenhearted
- cringey
- dastard
- dastardly
- dickless
- dough-faced
- fainthearted
- fearful
- fraidy
- gizzardless
- invertebrate
- hen-hearted
- kiasi
- lily-livered
- liver-faced
- low-hearted
- milk-livered
- mouse-hearted
- mousy
- nerveless
- nutless
- pigeon-livered
- poltroonish
Origin of gutless
From gut + -less.
Words formed from gutless
Phrases with gutless
Questions about gutless
- What does gutless mean?
- Gutless means without a gut.
- What is gutless in Tamil?
- Gutless in Tamil is துணிச்சலின்மை. See Gutless meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is gutless?
- Gutless is an adjective.
Words near gutless in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gutless (page history and authors); gutless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gutless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gutless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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