spineless
Adjective Satellite
- weak in willpower, courage or vitality
- lacking thorns
Adjective
- lacking a backbone or spinal column
- lacking spiny processes
- "spineless fins"
Adj
- Having no spines, prickles, or thorns.
- Having no spinal column.
- Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
Origin / Etymology
From spine + -less.
Synonyms
gutless, invertebrate, namby-pamby, thornless, wishy-washy, ;, boneless, chicken, chicken-hearted, chickenshit, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, heartless, hen-hearted, kiasi, lily-livered, milky, mousy, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, sissy, spineless, timid, timorous, unhearty, unspined, unspiny, weak-kneed, wimpish, yellow, yellow-bellied
Antonyms
spinous, vertebrate, spined#Adjective, spiny
Scrabble Score: 11
spineless: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordspineless: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
spineless: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary