See funk in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
Ignoble lack of courage:
chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, pusillanimity, unmanliness. (Slang) gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak. See fearGreat agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger:
affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, horror, panic, terror, trepidation. (Slang) cold feet. Idiom: fear and trembling. See fearA feeling or spell of dismally low spirits:
blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness. See feelings, happyAn ignoble, uncourageous person:
coward, craven, dastard, poltroon. (Slang) chicken, yellow-belly. See fear
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