'Cowardly' definitions:
Definition of 'cowardly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley [syn: cowardly, fearful] [ant: brave, courageous]
Definition of 'Cowardly'
From: GCIDE
- Cowardly \Cow"ard*ly\, adv. In the manner of a coward. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cowardly'
From: GCIDE
- Cowardly \Cow"ard*ly\, a.
- 1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. [1913 Webster]
- The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cowardly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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