gutlessness

gutlessness
The state or condition of being gutless; cowardice.

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  • gutlessness — gutless ► ADJECTIVE informal ▪ lacking courage or determination. DERIVATIVES gutlessly adverb gutlessness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • gutlessness — noun see gutless …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • gutlessness — See gutless. * * * …   Universalium

  • gutlessness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. Ignoble lack of courage: chickenheart edness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint heartedness, funk, pusillanimity, unmanliness. Slang: yellowness, yellow streak. See FEAR …   English dictionary for students

  • gutlessness — n. cowardliness, lack of courage …   English contemporary dictionary

  • gutlessness — gut·less·ness …   English syllables

  • gutlessness — noun the trait of lacking courage and determination; fearful of loss or injury • Ant: ↑gutsiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑gutless • Hypernyms: ↑fearfulness * * * noun see gutless …   Useful english dictionary

  • gutless — gutlessness, n. /gut lis/, adj. Informal. lacking courage, fortitude, or determination. [1600 10 for literal sense; GUT + LESS] * * * …   Universalium

  • cowardice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shrinking from pain or danger Nouns 1. cowardice, cowardliness, pusillanimity, poltroonery, baseness; dastardliness; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear, white feather, faint heart, timidity. Informal …   English dictionary for students

  • gutless — adjective Date: 1900 1. lacking courage ; cowardly 2. lacking significance or vitality • gutlessness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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