✅ Cowardly describes lacking courage and not being brave (The cowardly cat hid under the bed).

✅ Yellow-bellied is an informal way of saying that someone lacks courage (The yellow-bellied fool has betrayed us!).

✅ Cowardly and yellow-bellied both have pretty negative connotations. Using cowardly or yellow-bellied suggests that you feel contempt or scorn for the person described.

✅ Yellow-bellied is an old-fashioned slang term and is not usually used seriously now.

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✅ Immature describes a person who is childish or who hasn’t yet fully developed emotionally. It also describes plants and fruits which aren’t fully mature or ripe (The trees are immature now, but in a few decades this area will have grown into a lovely wood).

✅ Green describes fruits which are underripe and people who are inexperienced (The berries were too green to eat).

✅ Immature and green both describe people and things that haven’t reached their full development (She’s a little too immature; The new worker shows promise, even if he is a little green).

✅ When referring to people, green is a more informal, but also in some situations less judgmental, word than immature. When referring to fruits, green is the usual word and immature is more formal.

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✅ Sad describes feeling upset or unhappy (The ending of my book made me sad).

✅ Blue describes feeling dejected, depressed, or miserable (I woke up a little blue).

✅ Sad and blue both describe feeling melancholy, upset, or dejected, but blue is often used as a lighter-hearted way to say you’re feeling big and difficult emotions (She’s been feeling blue since her girlfriend left).

✅ Though sad is a less lighthearted word, it generally refers to smaller or more passing kinds of unhappiness (She felt sad that her favorite café had closed).

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