What is another word for spineless?
458 synonyms found
What is a spineless animal?
What is an invertebrate animal?
Pronunciation:
[ spˈa͡ɪnləs], [ spˈaɪnləs], [ s_p_ˈaɪ_n_l_ə_s]
Related words: extinct animals without backbones, non-vertebrates without backbones, invertebrate animals without backbone, marine invertebrate animals without backbones, invertebrate animals without backbone and spines, animals without a backbone
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Similar words for spineless:
- all (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- fainthearted (adjective)
- fawning (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- gutless (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- irresolute (adjective)
- meek (adjective)
- obsequious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- soft (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- weak-minded (adjective)
- weak-willed (adjective)
- flexible (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- insipid
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Spineless:
adj.
• all (adjective) • cowardly (adjective)- ineffectual,
- spiritless,
- cowardly,
- yellow,
- shrinking,
- vacillating,
- submissive,
- ineffective,
- tremulous,
- Cowhearted,
- craven,
- frightened,
- Chicken-hearted,
- impotent,
- no guts,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- yellow-bellied,
- lily-livered,
- irresolute,
- lacking courage,
- amoebalike,
- Pithless,
- having the willies,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- pigeonhearted,
- squeamish,
- running scared,
- inadequate.
- more cowed,
- co-wed,
- co wed,
- wimpier,
- un assertive,
- having cold feet,
- un-assertive,
- most unassertive,
- most cowed,
- more unassertive,
- wimpiest.
- more bootlicking,
- most scraping,
- fawning,
- more sniveling,
- most brownnosing,
- sub-missive,
- more sycophant,
- most sycophantic,
- more sycophantic,
- more kowtowing,
- most kowtowing,
- most sniveling,
- most sycophant,
- more brownnosing,
- most adulatory,
- most bootlicking,
- sub missive,
- mealy mouthed,
- most bowing,
- more scraping,
- more adulatory,
- more bowing.
- more coward,
- most faint-hearted,
- most faint hearted,
- most coward,
- faint hearted,
- more faint hearted,
- more faint-hearted.
- more slackspined,
- most slackspined,
- un-available,
- more slack spined,
- most slack spined,
- more emasculate,
- most emasculate,
- slack-spined,
- most slack-spined,
- slack spined,
- un available,
- in-effective,
- more slack-spined,
- in effective,
- slackspined.
- in competent,
- more neutralized,
- in-adequate,
- in vertebrate,
- in-nocuous,
- null void,
- un-ablest,
- in efficient,
- de-feasible,
- anti climactic,
- un-fruitful,
- in-efficient,
- in-vertebrate,
- in decisive,
- in effectual,
- in-effectual,
- un successful,
- most anticlimactic,
- more anticlimactic,
- anti-climactic,
- more forceless,
- more defeasible,
- more invertebrate,
- in-competent,
- in operative,
- un fruitful,
- in adequate,
- most invertebrate,
- de feasible,
- more ineffective,
- null and void,
- inefficient,
- un ablest,
- in nocuous,
- in-operative,
- un abler,
- un-successful,
- un-productive,
- un profitable,
- un-availing,
- un-profitable,
- un productive,
- un-abler,
- in-decisive,
- most defeasible,
- un availing,
- most neutralized,
- most forceless.
- indecisive,
- inconsistent,
- watery,
- Shilly-shally,
- dillydallying,
- undecided,
- insipid,
- impulsive,
- irresponsible,
- fly-by-night,
- unsure,
- double-minded,
- Flitting,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- fickle,
- erratic,
- shifty,
- infirm,
- ambivalent,
- volatile,
- unresolved,
- shy,
- capricious,
- halfhearted,
- tentative,
- hesitant,
- unwilling,
- changeable.
- most pabulum,
- most nothing,
- most zero,
- unassuming,
- un assuming,
- more nothing,
- most unresisting,
- more milquetoast,
- most longanimous,
- more unresisting,
- wishywashy,
- wishy washy,
- re signed,
- most milquetoast,
- long suffering,
- un-assuming,
- un-resisting,
- more longanimous,
- more zero,
- longsuffering,
- unpretentious,
- re-signed,
- more pabulum,
- un-pretentious,
- un pretentious,
- un resisting.
- fainthearted,
- sycophantic,
- unresisting,
- inefficacious,
- faint-hearted,
- without guts,
- adulatory,
- longanimous,
- obsequious,
- mealymouthed,
- forceless,
- unassured,
- soft,
- unassertive,
- wimpy,
- anticlimactic,
- fearful,
- meek,
- gutless,
- astraddle,
- not effective,
- defeasible,
- no go,
- no way,
- hemming and hawing,
- nerveless,
- timid.
- more browbeaten,
- more unnerved,
- most unnerved,
- un nerved,
- de-mure,
- most daunted,
- most browbeaten,
- un assured,
- most trembling,
- un-assured,
- more daunted,
- most badgered,
- more trembling,
- most bullied,
- more bullied,
- more badgered,
- more unassured,
- most unassured,
- un-nerved,
- de mure.
n.
• flexible (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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- lame duck.
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- susceptible.
- droopy,
- turkey,
- ghost,
- unrestrained,
- Fiendly,
- shrinking violet,
- inconstant,
- core,
- poltroon,
- heart,
- adrift,
- slack,
- unsteady,
- amorphous,
- nondescript,
- soul,
- milk-and-water,
- unpredictable,
- feebleminded,
- shuffling,
- Vicissitudinary,
- flabby,
- floppy,
- scatterbrained,
- changeful,
- alternating,
- enervate,
- foolish,
- undisciplined,
- eccentric,
- variable,
- spasmodic,
- wayward,
- person,
- roving,
- Unsteadfast,
- slavish,
- whimsical,
- personage,
- anemic,
- unsettle,
- languorous,
- squashy,
- giddy,
- rambling,
- pathetic,
- uncontrolled,
- bloodless,
- unstrung,
- abulic,
- limp,
- etiolated,
- unarmed,
- imbecile,
- dastardly,
- coward,
- afraid,
- unreliable,
- wavering,
- rubbery,
- anaemic,
- restless,
- frail,
- asthenic,
- body,
- wan,
- impetuous,
- jellyfish,
- lame-duck,
- wavy,
- wandering,
- unnerve,
- debilitated,
- dull,
- unheroic,
- unhardened,
- freakish,
- faze,
- fitful,
- Effet,
- personification,
- party,
- life,
- Pooped,
- limp-wristed,
- Faintish,
- essence,
- languid,
- pusillanimous,
- creature,
- easy,
- shapeless,
- doormat,
- Unstaid,
- unnerved,
- vagrant,
- Marrowless,
- lukewarm,
- Lustless,
- wimpish,
- inept,
- Weak-minded,
- weak sister,
- crybaby,
- fluctuating,
- weakly,
- unfixed,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- Half-hearted,
- tender,
- recreant,
- afloat,
- wavery,
- faint,
- dizzy,
- powerless,
- unaccountable,
- mind,
- wet,
- undetermined,
- flickering,
- personality,
- lax,
- retiring,
- Vicissitudinous,
- incompetent,
- effete,
- man,
- listless,
- feckless,
- gutless wonder,
- loose,
- drooping,
- wanton,
- Strengthless,
- Sinewless,
- characterless,
- milksop,
- big baby,
- flighty,
- moody,
- shifting,
- white-livered,
- mercurial,
- flimsy,
- Milk-livered,
- flaccid,
- character,
- gone,
- mazy,
- emasculate,
- weakling,
- weaken,
- desultory,
- milquetoast,
- irregular,
- wimp.
How to use "Spineless" in context?
Most people would probably consider themselves to be somewhere on the spectrum of being 'spineless'. The term is often used to describe people who don't have the backbone to stand up for themselves, or who are too timid to take action.
It can be a surprisingly negative term, but it can also be a source of strength for people who don't have a lot of confidence. For those who are considered to be 'spineless', there may be things they do that are difficult for others to understand, but they know deep down that they're not strong enough to face the world on their own.
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