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spineless
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective spineless has 4 senses
- spineless(s = adj.all) gutless, namby-pamby, wishy-washy - weak in willpower, courage or vitality; Array Derived form noun spinelessness1
- spineless(a = adj.all) invertebrate - lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals"
- spineless(a = adj.all) Array - lacking spiny processes; "spineless fins" Antonym: spinous
- spineless(s = adj.all) thornless - lacking thorns; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
spineless, a.
- Having no spine, or vertebral column. [1913 Webster]
- Having no thorns or barbs. [PJC]
- lacking in strength of character; cowardly, in a physical or moral sense. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spineless, adj.
1 a having no spine; invertebrate. b (of a fish) having no fin-spines.
2 (of a person) lacking energy or resolution; weak and purposeless.
1 a having no spine; invertebrate. b (of a fish) having no fin-spines.
2 (of a person) lacking energy or resolution; weak and purposeless.
Derivative
spinelessly adv. spinelessness n.
THESAURUS
spineless
abulic, adrift, afloat, afraid, alternating, amorphous, anemic, asthenic, bloodless, capricious, changeable, changeful, chicken, cowardly, craven, dastardly, debilitated, desultory, deviable, dizzy, drooping, droopy, dull, eccentric, effete, emasculate, erratic, etiolated, faint, fainthearted, faintish, fast and loose, fearful, feeble, feebleminded, fickle, fitful, flabby, flaccid, flickering, flighty, flitting, floppy, fluctuating, forceless, frail, freakish, giddy, gone, gutless, imbecile, impetuous, impotent, impulsive, inadequate, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, ineffective, ineffectual, infirm, invertebrate, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, languid, languorous, lily-livered, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, mazy, mercurial, moody, nerveless, pithless, pliable, pooped, powerless, pusillanimous, rambling, restless, roving, rubbery, sapless, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, sinewless, slack, soft, spasmodic, spiritless, squeamish, strengthless, timid, timorous, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unhardened, unnerved, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unstrung, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, weakly, whimsical, white-livered, wishy-washy, yellow
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