FAINTHEARTED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of fainthearted in English

(Definition of fainthearted from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of fainthearted

fainthearted
The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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In my view, this was not an ambitious summit; it was fainthearted.
If we are going to harmonise, let us harmonise and not be fainthearted about it, within the technological possibilities which may be available to us.
He is certainly not fainthearted in any way.
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They are fainthearted at times, but they can be encouraged.
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They are fainthearted, looking over their shoulder for electoral advantage or whatever.
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Is she aware that her attitude towards unemployment is both complacent and fainthearted?
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Fainthearted attempts are being made to mitigate this scandal.
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The public will not be misled by any fainthearted proposals that it should be left to landlords to make their own choices.
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Therefore, in a sense, the industry is a sitting duck for the fainthearted, for the politically expedient and for the vested interest.
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The public are not always fainthearted.
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Milk-and-water sanctions are just a waste of time and are likely to result in hard words, such as "pusillanimity", being addressed to those who are fainthearted in imposing them.
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I feel that they would have thought it pretty fainthearted to boggle at this sort of sum of £3 per head per year, or at writing off £18,000 million in 36 years.
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Such fainthearted defeatism should not be applied to the protection of children, who need and deserve all the protection that we, as legislators, can give them.
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We are the custodians of liberty in this country, and we should not be fainthearted or lacking in the courage to get up and say so.
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Translations of fainthearted

in Chinese (Traditional)
膽怯的, 怯懦的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
胆怯的, 怯懦的…
in Spanish
timorato, tímido…
in Portuguese
sem coragem, receoso…
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