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| NOUN: | 1. An ignoble, uncourageous person: coward, craven, dastard, poltroon. Slang : chicken, yellow-belly. See FEAR. 2. Ignoble lack of courage: chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, pusillanimity, unmanliness. Slang : gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak. See FEAR. 3. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger: affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, horror, panic, terror, trepidation. Slang : cold feet. Idioms: fear and trembling. See FEAR. 4. A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness. See FEELINGS, HAPPY.
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