Meaning of COWARDLY
| Pronunciation: | | 'kawurdlee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley |
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| | Synonyms: | | caitiff, chicken, chickenhearted, coward(a), cowering(a), craven, cringing(a), dastard(a), dastardly, faint, fainthearted, fearful, funky, lily-livered, poltroon, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, recreant, timid, unmanly, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied |
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| | Antonyms: | | brave, courageous, fearless | | |
| | See Also: | | afraid(p), ignoble | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cow"ard*ly\, a.
1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful;
pusillanimous; spiritless.
The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle.
--Shak.
2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences;
befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly
malignity. --Macaulay.
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.
\Cow"ard*ly\, adv.
In the manner of a coward. --Spenser.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, panicky, panic-prone, 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, weakhearted, weak-kneed, weakly, weak-minded, weak-willed, white-livered, worthless, yellow |
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