Thesaurus:cowardly
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: excessively tending to fear
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- boneless (chiefly British)
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- chickenshit
- cowardly
- craven
- dastardly
- fainthearted
- fearful
- heartless (obsolete in this sense)
- gutless
- hen-hearted
- kiasi (Singlish)
- lily-livered
- milky (obsolete)
- mousy
- niddering (archaic)
- nidering (archaic)
- niding (archaic)
- nithing (archaic)
- poor-spirited
- pusillanimous
- spineless
- timid
- unhearty
- weak-kneed
- yellow [⇒ thesaurus]
- yellow-bellied
Antonyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “862. cowardice” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “cowardly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.