| apprehensive(adjective, weak, spineless, gutless) |
| chicken-livered |
| diffident(adjective, weak, spineless, gutless) |
| nervous(adjective, weak, spineless, gutless) |
| weak-kneed(adjective, weak, soft, base, fearful) |
| anxious(weak, spineless, gutless) |
| backward(weak, spineless, gutless) |
| base(weak, spineless, gutless) |
| caitiff(weak, spineless, gutless, pigeonhearted, chicken-hearted) |
| cowering(weak, subservient, spineless, gutless, falsehearted) |
| cowhearted(weak, subservient, spineless, gutless, falsehearted) |
| dismayed(weak, spineless, gutless) |
| fainthearted(weak, subservient, spineless, gutless, falsehearted) |
| having the willies(expression, idiom, weak, subservient, spineless) |
| jittery(weak, spineless, gutless) |
| lacking courage(expression, weak, subservient, spineless, gutless) |
| mousy |
| nerveless(adjective, death) |
| no guts(expression, weak, subservient, spineless, gutless) |
| panicky(weak, spineless, gutless) |