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cowardice - 5 thesaurus results
Main Entry: cowardice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: timidity
Synonyms: cold feet*, fear, funk, faintheartedness, fearfulness, gutlessness, mousiness, pusillanimity, wimpiness
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Main Entry: cowardice
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
caitliff, chicken, dastardly, hilding, milklivered, niddering, recreant, with feet of clay
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Synonyms:
-nouns
cowardice, pusillanimity; cowardliness; timidity, effeminacy., poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear [more]; white feather, faint heart; cold feet [U.S.], yellow streak., coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; shy cock, dunghill cock; coistril, milksop, white liver, lilly liver, nidget, one that cannot say "boo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak., alarmist, terrorist, pessimist; runagate (fugitive) [more].
-verbs
quail (fear) [more]; be cowardly, be a coward; funk; cower, skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away (avoid) [more]; show, the white feather.
-adjectives
coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate., weak-minded; infirm of purpose [more]; weakhearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white-livered, lily-livered, milk-livered; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say " boo" to a goose., dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant; unwarlike, unsoldier-like., "in face a lion but in heart a deer.", unmanned; frightened [more].
-phrases
ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit [Vergil].
Antonyms: courage
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Main Entry: fear
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alarm, apprehension
Synonyms: abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bête noire, cold feet*, concern, consternation, cowardice, despair, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, dread, foreboding, fright, funk*, horror, jitters, misgiving, nightmare, panic, phobia, presentiment, qualm, reverence, revulsion, scare, suspicion, terror, timidity, tremor, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, chickenheartedness, cold sweat, creeps, discomposure, faintheartedness, recreancy, trembling, unease
Antonyms: bravery, courage, heroism, unconcern, fearlessness
* = informal/non-formal usage
Main Entry: timidity
Part of Speech: noun2
Definition: fear
Synonyms: cowardice, cowardliness, faintheartedness, fearfulness, timorousness
Notes: temerity is daring or recklessness; timidity is fearfulness or hesitancy
Antonyms: audacity, boldness, guts, nerve, stoutheartedness
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