Craven

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  • adjective. Characterized by abject fear; cowardly.
  • noun. A coward.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make craven, recreant, weak, or cowardly.
  • Overcome; conquered; defeated. See to cry craven, below.
  • Cowardly; pusillanimous; mean-spirited.
  • to yield in submission; be defeated; fail.
  • noun. A mean or base coward; a pusillanimous fellow; a dastard.
  • noun. Synonyms Poltroon, Dastard, etc. See coward.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See recreant, n.
  • adjective. Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.
  • transitive verb. To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
  • noun. A confessed coward.
  • verb. To make craven.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  • noun. an abject coward
    • Word Usage
    "So if you had any doubt about who owns the Republicans and their nether regions, this latest exercise in craven sycophancy should pretty much put that to rest."
    Equivalent
    cowardly  fearful  
    Form
    cravened  cravening  cry craven  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coward  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cavan  Laven  Raven  Sarajevan  graven  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abject  arrant  black-hearted  bloodthirsty  contemptible  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    base  caitiff  chicken  coward  coward  
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