Cowardice


Synonyms for cowardice
noun timidity

gutlessness
pusillanimity
faintheartedness

fear
fearfulness
funk

cold feet
mousiness
wimpiness

Concept Thesaurus for word cowardice
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Synonyms – noun

cowardice
effeminacy.
dastardy
fear
yellow streak.
sneak
coistril
nidget
Bob Acres
pessimist

pusillanimity
poltroonery
abject fear
white feather
coward
recreant
milksop
one that cannot say “boo”
Jerry Sneak.
runagate (fugitive)

cowardliness
baseness
funk
faint heart
poltroon
shy cock
white liver
to a goose
alarmist

timidity
dastardness
Dutch courage
cold feet [U.S.]
dastard
dunghill cock
lilly liver
slink
terrorist

Synonyms – verbs

quail (fear)
cower
shy
run away (avoid)

be cowardly
skulk
fight shy
show

be a coward
sneak
slink
the white feather.

funk
flinch
turn tail

Synonyms – adjectives

coward
timid
spiritless
infirm of purpose
henhearted
lily-livered
unable to say ”
dastardly
dunghill
“in face a lion but in heart a deer.”

cowardly
timorous
soft
weakhearted
lilyhearted
milk-livered
boo”
base
recreant
unmanned

fearful
skittish
effeminate.
fainthearted
pigeon-hearted
milksop
to a goose.
craven
unwarlike
frightened

shy
poor-spirited
weak-minded
chickenhearted
white-livered
smock-faced
dastard
sneaking
unsoldier-like.

Synonyms – phrases
ante tubam trepidat, one’s courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit [Vergil].
Antonyms

courage

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Other adjectives related to cowardice

caitliff
milklivered

chicken
niddering

dastardly
recreant

hilding
with feet of clay

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