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- pronunciation:
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- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word History, Word Explorer
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a person who lacks the courage to face danger, pain, or difficulty; a person easily discouraged or intimidated by fear.
He admitted that he had been a coward in not standing up for what he believed.Those men who refused to serve in the army were branded cowards.- synonyms:
- chicken, craven, recreant, sissy
- antonyms:
- hero, heroine
- similar words:
- dastard, jellyfish, milksop, niddering, pantywaist, poltroon, weakling
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adjective |
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produced by or resulting from fearfulness; cowardly.
his coward retreat- synonyms:
- cowardly, fearful, timid, timorous
- similar words:
- fainthearted, pusillanimous, weak
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Coward is from an early French word that means "tail." Today we say that a frightened animal or person may "turn tail" and run.
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