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What is another word for
paper tiger
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Noun
A seemingly fierce or powerful person who is actually ineffective or powerless
An idolized and self-important official, often regarded with false reverence
Adjective
Lacking the power or ability to act effectively
Shaking or quivering as a result of cowardice
Harmless or producing no ill effect
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Noun
▲
A seemingly fierce or powerful person who is actually ineffective or powerless
empty suit
hollow man
man of straw
straw man
tin god
emperor with no clothes
sheep in wolf's clothing
petty tyrant
cover
front
“A general thrust of my argument is that the postmodern turn in anthropology threatens to be a
paper tiger
.”
Noun
▲
An idolized and self-important official, often regarded with false reverence
tin god
idol
official
little tin god
sacred cow
golden calf
object of worship
god
Adjective
▲
Lacking the power or ability to act effectively
impotent
helpless
powerless
incapable
inept
unable
inadequate
unfit
incompetent
dud
forceless
impuissant
unfitted
weak
hamstrung
paralyzed
US
paralysed
UK
handcuffed
feeble
weakly
pinned
prostrate
shiftless
debilitated
disabled
hog-tied
high and dry
with hands tied
up creek without paddle
basket-case
Adjective
▲
Shaking or quivering as a result of cowardice
trembling
cowardly
chicken
spineless
fearful
gutless
timorous
craven
yellow
pusillanimous
timid
weak
cowering
quaking
wimpish
recreant
scared
afraid
soft
feeble
sissy
unheroic
shrinking
spiritless
frightened
wimpy
dastardly
poltroon
chickenhearted
wet
nervous
apprehensive
fainthearted
jittery
sissified
abject
boneless
diffident
panicky
anxious
base
pigeonhearted
dismayed
shy
caitiff
retiring
sookie
backward
cowhearted
worthless
lily-livered
faint-hearted
weak-kneed
pigeon-hearted
chicken-hearted
yellow-bellied
chicken-livered
lacking courage
milk-livered
candy-assed
poor-spirited
no guts
running scared
white-livered
having the willies
nerveless
weakling
characterless
effete
pathetic
irresolute
frail
limp-wristed
weakened
submissive
invertebrate
wishy-washy
namby-pamby
tremulous
intimidated
meek
weak-willed
hesitant
mousy
unmanly
wussy
mousey
easily frightened
jumpy
milk-and-water
ineffectual
cowed
ineffective
skittish
cringey
tentative
weedy
cringing
unassertive
vacillating
daunted
feart
having cold feet
shaky
unnerved
impotent
squeamish
scary
fearsome
terrified
startled
wavering
petrified
tame
daft
feckless
enervated
nervy
spooked
vapid
inept
insipid
limp
languid
jejune
milksoppish
mediocre
listless
sapless
half-hearted
foolish
sheepish
gentle
browbeaten
Milquetoast
capricious
bullied
unassured
reluctant
coward
niddering
poltroonish
emasculated
ignoble
epicene
lame
like a lamb to the slaughter
afraid of one's own shadow
dishonourable
UK
dishonorable
US
swishy
snowflake
trepidatious
nerdy
faint
shuddering
soppy
drippy
frightened of one's own shadow
indecisive
fickle
passive
easily scared
faltering
dithering
useless
forceless
pithless
emasculate
powerless
undetermined
indeterminate
fallible
corruptible
supine
hemming and hawing
waffling
yielding
unreliable
unsure
undependable
without a will of your own
easily led
afraid of one's shadow
slack-spined
wormlike
servile
alarmed
worried
tense
concerned
uneasy
bothered
horrified
frantic
disturbed
perturbed
shaken
rattled
aghast
hysterical
fretful
terrorized
US
troubled
affrighted
afeared
overwrought
hysteric
shocked
frozen
stunned
frit
upset
terrorised
UK
apprehensive about
intimidated by
on edge
in a flap
alarmed at
beside oneself
terror-stricken
scared to death
panic-stricken
in a fluster
scared stiff
in a state
in a tizzy
scared witless
in a tizz
in a funk
in a cold sweat
horror-struck
in a blue funk
horror-stricken
terror-struck
in awe
shaking in one's shoes
with your heart in your mouth
frightened out of your wits
scared out of your wits
shaking like a leaf
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Harmless or producing no ill effect
unoffensive
innocuous
inoffensive
unobjectionable
safe
innocent
innoxious
hurtless
gentle
nontoxic
disarmed
guiltless
inoperative
kind
manageable
naive
nonirritating
painless
simple
soft
softie
powerless
sanitary
paper-tiger
benign
anodyne
white
uninjurious
clear
nonviolent
undamaging
nonpoisonous
wholesome
mild
sound
non-dangerous
non-poisonous
undisruptive
not dangerous
unharmful
sure
pussycat
unhazardous
risk-free
non-irritant
non-toxic
non-addictive
controllable
trustworthy
harmless
tame
unoffending
pure
unpolluted
low-risk
unmalicious
unhurtful
offenseless
inobnoxious
playful
bland
well-intentioned
unintentional
unintended
unexceptionable
non-injurious
well-meant
noncontroversial
uncontentious
meaningless
uncontroversial
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