Word Meanings - COWARDICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COWARDICE)

• Pusillanimity
• cowardice
• meanspiritedness
• faintheartedness
• timidity
• poltroonery

Related words: (words related to COWARDICE)

• COWARDICE
  Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.
• POLTROONERY
  Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• PUSILLANIMITY
  The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness. The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Shak. It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility. South.