Thesaurus:cowardly

Thesaurus

cowardly

English

Adjective

Sense: excessively tending to fear

Synonyms

• boneless (chiefly British)
• chicken
• chicken-hearted
• chickenshit
• cowardly
• craven
• dastardly
• fainthearted
• fearful
• heartless (obsolete in this sense)
• gutless
• hen-hearted
• kiasi (Singlish)
• lily-livered
• milky (obsolete)
• mousy
• niddering (archaic)
• nidering (archaic)
• niding (archaic)
• nithing (archaic)
• poor-spirited
• pusillanimous
• spineless
• timid
• unhearty
• weak-kneed
• yellow
• yellow-bellied

Antonyms

• brave    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• shy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• timid
• timorous

See also

• Thesaurus:afraid
• Thesaurus:coward
• Thesaurus:cowardice

Further reading

• “862. cowardice” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “cowardly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.