cowardly

4 definitions found

cowardly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cowardly \Cow"ard*ly\, a.
     1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful;
        pusillanimous; spiritless.
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              The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences;
        befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly
        malignity. --Macaulay.
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              The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look
              danger in the face.                   --Burke.
  
     Syn: Timid; fearful; timorous; dastardly; pusillanimous;
          recreant; craven; faint-hearted; chicken-hearted;
          white-livered.
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  Cowardly \Cow"ard*ly\, adv.
     In the manner of a coward. --Spenser.
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cowardly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cowardly
      adj 1: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted;
             "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
             [syn: cowardly, fearful] [ant: brave, courageous]

cowardly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "cowardly":
     abulic, afraid, anemic, asthenic, bashful, bloodless, caitiff,
     chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowed, craven, dastardly, daunted,
     debilitated, diffident, dismayed, drooping, droopy, dull, effete,
     etiolated, faint, fainthearted, faintish, fearful, fearing,
     fearsome, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, floppy, frail,
     frightened, funking, funky, gone, goosy, gutless, henhearted,
     imbecile, impotent, in fear, infirm, intimidated, invertebrate,
     jumpy, languid, languorous, lily-livered, limber, limp, listless,
     lustless, marrowless, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy,
     namby-pamby, nerveless, nervous, overtimid, overtimorous,
     panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, pithless, pliable, poltroon,
     poltroonish, pooped, powerless, pusillanimous, rabbity, recreant,
     rubbery, sapless, scared, scary, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy,
     sinewless, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, slack, soft,
     spineless, spunkless, startlish, strengthless, timid, timorous,
     trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unhardened,
     unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, vile, weak, weak-kneed,
     weak-minded, weak-willed, weakhearted, weakly, white-livered,
     worthless, yellow