Definition: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Usage: cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then- P.B.Shelley
Similar words: caitiff
Definition: despicably mean and cowardly
Similar words: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied
Definition: easily frightened
Similar words: craven, recreant
Definition: lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
Usage: the craven fellow turned and ran; a craven proposal to raise the white flag; this recreant knight- Spenser
Similar words: dastard, dastardly
Definition: despicably cowardly
Usage: the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th- F.D. Roosevelt
Similar words: timid, faint, faint-hearted, fainthearted
Definition: lacking conviction or boldness or courage
Usage: faint heart ne'er won fair lady
Similar words: funky
Definition: in a state of cowardly fright
Similar words: poltroon
Definition: characterized by complete cowardliness
Similar words: poor-spirited, pusillanimous, unmanly
Definition: lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful