Definitions for fainthearted

fainthearted faint·heart·ed

Spelling: [feynt-hahr-tid]
IPA: /ˈfeɪntˈhɑr tɪd/

Fainthearted is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 921 anagrams from letters in fainthearted (aadeefhinrtt).

Definitions for fainthearted

adjective

  1. lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.

Origin of fainthearted

First recorded in 1400-50, fainthearted is from the late Middle English word feynt hertyd. See faint, hearted

Examples for fainthearted

“Woe unto him that is fainthearted,” says the son of Sirach.

If we are so fainthearted now what should we have been before the Reformation?

Such had been the unexpected outcome of the tentative and fainthearted opening of Albert's political life.

Okie managed a fainthearted grin, uncertain of whether his leg was being pulled.

The word rendered "fainthearted" is only used in this single passage; yet every one knows what it means.

Sometimes the very opposite is in place; and so Paul writes, "Encourage the fainthearted."

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?

I ricommend to you, trusting to God, and putting down all misgivings and fainthearted feelin's.

They had volunteered for the team and successfully passed the tests to weed out the temperamentally unfit or fainthearted.

Surely some amongst us are too fainthearted about the truth.

Word Value for fainthearted
Scrable

19

Words with friends

19

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