| Main Entry: | cowardice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | timidity |
Synonyms: |
cold feet, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness, funk, gutlessness, mousiness, pusillanimity, wimpiness |
| Main Entry: | faintheartedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cowardice |
Synonyms: |
chicken, chickenheartedness, cowardliness, cravenness, fearfulness, gutlessness, pusillanimity, unmanliness, wimpiness |
| Main Entry: | gutlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cowardice |
Synonyms: |
chickenheartedness, cold feet, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness, funk, mousiness, pusillanimity, unmanliness, wimpiness |
| Main Entry: | pusillanimity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cowardice |
Synonyms: |
chickenheartedness, cold feet, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness, funk, gutlessness, mousiness, unmanliness, wimpiness |
| Main Entry: | unmanliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cowardice |
Synonyms: |
chickenheartedness, cold feet, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness, funk, gutlessness, mousiness, pusillanimity, wimpiness |
| Main Entry: | cowardice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
caitliff, chicken, dastardly, hilding, milklivered, niddering, recreant, with feet of clay
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| Concept: | [Excess of fear.] Cowardice. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
cowardice, pusillanimity; cowardliness; timidity, effeminacy., poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear; 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).
-verbs
quail (fear); be cowardly, be a coward; funk; cower, skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away (avoid); show, the white feather.
-adjectives
coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate., weak-minded; infirm of purpose; 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.
-phrases
ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit [Vergil].
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Antonyms: |
courage |
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