Thesaurus:cowardly
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: excessively tending to fear
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- backboneless (figurative)
- base
- bitch-ass (AAVE, derogatory)
- boneless (chiefly British)
- caitiff
- candy-assed (US, Canada, slang)
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- chicken-livered
- chickenshit (vulgar, slang)
- courageless
- cowardish (obsolete)
- cowardly
- cowardy (British)
- cowhearted
- cowish
- craven
- cravenhearted
- cringey
- dastard
- dastardly
- dickless (figurative, vulgar, slang)
- dough-faced (US, idiomatic)
- fainthearted
- fearful
- fraidy (US, childish)
- gizzardless (figurative)
- heartless (obsolete in this sense)
- invalorous (obsolete)
- invertebrate [⇒ thesaurus]
- gutless
- hen-hearted
- kiasi (Singlish)
- lily-livered (figurative)
- liver-faced
- liver-hearted (archaic)
- low-hearted
- miching (US, dialect, obsolete)
- milky (obsolete)
- milk-livered
- mouse-hearted
- mousy
- nerveless
- niddering (archaic)
- nidering (archaic)
- niding (archaic)
- nithing (archaic)
- nutless
- pigeon-livered
- poltroonish
- poor-spirited
- punk (AAVE)
- pusillanimous
- pussylike
- ratlike
- rabbit-hearted
- recrayed
- retromingent
- sissy (derogatory)
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- unhearty
- weak-kneed
- white-hearted
- white-livered
- wimpish
- 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.