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hare-hearted

hare-hearted adjective: timorous; timid; easily frightened.

Adjective

hare-hearted (comparative more hare-hearted, superlative most hare-hearted)

  1. (archaic) timorous; timid; easily frightened.
    • aft by night, bumbaze hare-hearted fools1725, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd

Forms of hare-hearted

comparativemore hare-hearted
superlativemost hare-hearted

Questions about hare-hearted

What does hare-hearted mean?
Hare-hearted means timorous; timid; easily frightened.
What part of speech is hare-hearted?
Hare-hearted is an adjective.

Words near hare-hearted in the dictionary

  1. hare's-foot
  2. hare's-foot fern
  3. hare's-foot ferns
  4. hare's-tail
  5. hare-brained
  6. hare-hearted
  7. hare-lipped
  8. hare-lipped monkey
  9. hare-lipped monkeys
  10. hare-net
  11. hare-skin

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