Thesaurus:cowardly
English edit
Adjective edit
Sense: excessively tending to fear edit
Synonyms edit
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- cowardly
- craven
- dastardly
- fainthearted
- fearful
- gutless
- hen-hearted
- kiasi (Singlish)
- lily-livered
- milky (obsolete)
- mousy
- niddering (archaic)
- nidering (archaic)
- niding (archaic)
- nithing (archaic)
- poor-spirited
- pusillanimous
- timid
- weak-kneed
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
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.