Cowardice (Excess of fear)
Nouns
-
cowardice, pusillanimity
-
cowardliness etc. adj.
-
timidity, effeminacy. poltroonery, baseness
-
dastardness, dastardy
-
abject fear, funk
-
Dutch courage
-
fear etc. Fear
-
white feather, faint heart
-
cold feet [U.S.], yellow streak [Slang]. coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant
-
shy cock, dunghill cock
-
coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say 'boo' to a goose
-
slink
-
Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak. alarmist, terrorist, pessimist
-
runagate etc. (fugitive) [Absence of pursuit.] Avoidance.
Verbs
-
quail etc. (fear) Fear
-
be cowardly etc. adj., be a coward etc. n.
-
funk
-
cower, skulk, sneak
-
flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail
-
run away etc. (avoid) [Absence of pursuit.] Avoidance
-
show, the white feather.
Adjectives
-
coward, cowardly
-
fearful, shy
-
timid, timorous
-
skittish
-
poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate. weak-minded
-
infirm of purpose etc. Irresolution
-
weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted
-
white-livered, lily-livered, milk-livered
-
milksop, smock-faced
-
unable to say 'boo' to a goose. dastard, dastardly
-
base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant
-
unwarlike, unsoldier-like. in face a lion but in heart a deer." unmanned
-
frightened etc. Fear.
Int
-
every man for himself! [Fr.Tr.]
-
devil take the hindmost!