Thesaurus / yellow-bellied
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synonyms for yellow-bellied
- dastardly
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- mean-spirited
- chicken
- yellow
- cowardly
- dastardly
- fearful
- gutless
- lily-livered
- poltroonish
- pusillanimous
- scared
- timorous
- weak-kneed
- wimpish
- wimpy
- wussy
- abject
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- coward
- cowardly
- craven
- faint-hearted
- feeble
- irresolute
- lily-livered
- pusillanimous
- spineless
- submissive
- weak
- wimpy
- yellow
- invertebrate
- amoebalike
- faint-hearted
- fearful
- feeble
- forceless
- frightened
- gutless
- impotent
- inadequate
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- irresolute
- lily-livered
- nerveless
- pithless
- soft
- spiritless
- squeamish
- submissive
- timid
- vacillating
- weak
- weak-kneed
- weak-willed
- yellow
- changeable
- hemming and hawing
- hesitant
- hesitating
- indeterminate
- irresolute
- on the fence
- spineless
- tentative
- uncertain
- undecided
- undetermined
- waffling
- wavering
- weak-kneed
- wishy-washy
- without guts
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use yellow-bellied in a sentence
The pink flowers are the largest while those of a yellow color are the smallest.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Myiodynastes luteiventris luteiventris Sclater: Sulfur-bellied Flycatcher.
SUMMER BIRDS FROM THE YUCATAN PENINSULAERWIN E. KLAASThe flowers grow in clusters from the extremities of the stalk; they are yellow externally and of a delicate red within.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIIn the presence of bromin the chloroform, which settles to the bottom, assumes a yellow color.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDAs she peered into the face of Dr. Ashton, her own was scarlet and yellow, and her voice rose to a shriek.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODMicroscopically, they are yellow or reddish-brown crystals, which differ greatly in size and shape.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDAs they went cutting sidewise through the water, the sails bellied taut, with the wind filling and overflowing them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith beating heart, but steady hand and frowning eye, he advanced another step and found—that the object was a yellow stone!
HUNTING THE LIONSR.M. BALLANTYNEAnd gathering up Stéphanie like a bunch of snowdrops, the yellow, galvanized iron old lady swept out of the room.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEWORDS RELATED TO YELLOW-BELLIED
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.