gutless

3 definitions found

gutless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  gutless \gut"less\ adj.
     lacking courage or vitality; as, he was a yellow gutless
     worm. Opposite of gutsy.
  
     Syn: spineless.
          [WordNet 1.5]

gutless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gutless
      adj 1: lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless
             worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" [ant: gutsy,
             plucky]
      2: weak in willpower, courage or vitality [syn: namby-pamby,
         gutless, spineless, wishy-washy]

gutless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "gutless":
     anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, coward, cowardly, craven,
     debilitated, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, etiolated, faint,
     faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gone, gritless,
     heartless, imbecile, impotent, languid, languorous, lily-livered,
     limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless,
     pluckless, poltroonish, pooped, powerless, pusillanimous, rubbery,
     sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, spiritless, spunkless,
     strengthless, uncourageous, undaring, ungallant, unhardened,
     unheroic, unintrepid, unmanly, unnerved, unsoldierlike,
     unsoldierly, unstrung, unvaliant, unvalorous, weak, weakly