Word Meanings - COWARDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: COWARDLY

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. Macualay. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COWARDLY)

• Afraid
• Fearful
• apprehensive
• timid
• timorous
• cowardly
• fainthearted
• cautious
• careful
• frightened
• alarmed
• terrified
• suspicious
• distrustful
• anxious
• Recreant
• Apostate
• traitorous
• dastardly
• craven
• false
• unfaithful
• renegade
• base
• recusant

Related words: (words related to COWARDLY)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• ALARMABLE
  Easily alarmed or disturbed.
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• TIMID
  Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
• FRIGHTEN
  To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym:
• ANXIOUSNESS
  The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
• CAUTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being cautious.
• SUSPICIOUS
  1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work
• FEARFULLY
  In a fearful manner.
• ALARMIST
  One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• INTIMIDATORY
  Tending or serving to intimidate.