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WEAK-HEARTED

Date "WEAK-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)


Synonyms within Context: WEAK-HEARTED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cowardice

Weak-minded; infirm of purpose; weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white-livered, lily-livered, milk-livered; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say " bo " to a goose.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: WEAK-HEARTED

Language Translations for "WEAK-HEARTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

με αδύνατη καρδιά. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lag-chreeaghtagh, lag-chreeagh (chap-fallen). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eak-heartedway

   

Ukranian 

  

м'якосердий (soft-hearted, tenderhearted), малодушний (cowardly, weak-kneed, weak-spirited, white livered). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "WEAK-HEARTED"

Words rhyming with "WEAK-HEARTED" (pronounced 'Weak"-heart`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Fin-footed, flat-footed, Flat-headed, Flint-hearted, Forecited, forehanded, Forequoted. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WEAK-HEARTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: weakhearted.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-h-k-r-t-w"

-2 letters: headwater, weathered.

-3 letters: aweather, deaerate, hetaerae, reawaked, reheated, wheatear, wreathed.

-4 letters: aerated, awardee, dewater, earthed, hearted, hektare, hetaera, reawake, rewaked, tarweed, teaware, thrawed, tweaked, warhead, watered, weather, whereat, wrathed, wreaked, wreathe.

-5 letters: adhere, aerate, aether, awaked, dearth, dekare, derate, drawee, harked, hatred, hawked, hawker, header, heated, heater, heeder, hereat, karate, redate, reeked, reheat, retake.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WEAK-HEARTED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 45 41 4B 2D 48 45 41 52 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000101 01000001 01001011 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#69 &#65 &#75 &#45 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0045 0041 004B 002D 0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

573935451542393552543938

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