Cowardly Synonyms and Antonyms

kouərd-lē
Suggestive of a coward
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weak
  2. pusillanimous
  3. poltroonish
  4. craven
  5. dastardly
  6. recreant
  7. poor-spirited
  8. mean-spirited
  9. bullying
  10. base
  11. soft
  12. unmanly
  13. irresolute
  14. spineless
  15. gutless
  16. wimpy
  17. wimpish
In the manner of a coward
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. skulking
  2. sneaking
  3. cringing
  4. cowering
  5. trembling
  6. shaken
  7. crouching
  8. wincing
  9. quailing
  10. shaky
  11. running
  12. quaking
  13. shaking like a leaf
  14. pale with fear
  15. in a funk
  16. showing the white feather
  17. shaking in one's boots

Words Related to Cowardly

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Cowardly Sentence Examples

  • He had behaved like a cowardly recruit who mutilates himself to escape military service.

  • He is cowardly in war, and on one occasion was shut up for years in a huge brazen pot.

  • Keaton, on the other hand, wasn't the least bit cowardly.

  • The covering of this savage but cowardly little night-prowler is a sort of short hair, not fur.

  • The young prince alone rose to the height of the occasion, and set his face against such cowardly counsels, and he had the enthusiastic support of the great majority of the people.

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