faint-heart
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cowardly, faint-hearted person; one who is irresolute or fearful.
Example Sentences
- "Beowulf had scarcely died before the faint-hearts came crawling out of their burrows."
- "We are going to need all forces in the conditions that we have to face, and in the fight that we have before us we want no half-hearted supporters, no vacillators, no faint-hearts."