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Word Meanings - POLTROONISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.

Related words: (words related to POLTROONISH)

  • POLTROONERY
    Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
  • POLTROON
    An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak. (more info) sluggard, coward, poltro idle, lazy, also, bed, fr. OHG. polstar,
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • POLTROONISH
    Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.
  • 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
  • RESEMBLE
    sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
  • RESEMBLABLE
    Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
  • RESEMBLER
    One who resembles.
  • RESEMBLANCE
    1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  • NONRESEMBLANCE
    Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

 

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