spineless — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having no spines, prickles, or thorns.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   unspinedunspiny

   Antonyms

   spinedspiny

2. Having no spinal column.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   invertebrate

3. Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.

   Synonyms

   invertebrategutlessbonelesscowardly

   Examples

   You can laugh / A spineless laugh

   More examples (1)

   If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it.

   Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.

Adjective

1. lacking a backbone or spinal column

   Synonyms

   invertebrate

   Examples

   worms are an example of invertebrate animals

2. lacking spiny processes

   Antonyms

   spinous

   Examples

   spineless fins

3. lacking courage or vitality

   Synonyms

   gutlessnamby-pambywishy-washy

   Examples

   he was a yellow gutless worm

   a spineless craven fellow

4. lacking thorns

   Synonyms

   thornless