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Definition of Cowardly
1. Adjective. Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted. "Cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"
Attributes: Cowardice, Cowardliness
Also: Afraid, Timid, Ignoble
Similar to: Caitiff, Chicken, Chickenhearted, Lily-livered, White-livered, Yellow, Yellow-bellied, Craven, Recreant, Dastard, Dastardly, Faint, Faint-hearted, Fainthearted, Timid, Funky, Poltroon, Poor-spirited, Pusillanimous, Unmanly
Antonyms: Brave
Derivative terms: Coward, Cowardliness, Fearfulness
Definition of Cowardly
1. a. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
2. adv. In the manner of a coward.
Definition of Cowardly
1. Adverb. In the manner of a coward. ¹
2. Adjective. Showing cowardice. Lacking in courage, unacceptably fearful, usually meant with some implication of a lack of consideration for others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cowardly
1. lacking courage [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowardly
Literary usage of Cowardly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"And though the King's ships had so many as two hundred and fifty-two well manned,
to so few as nineteen, yet those cowardly Americans made those heroes and ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"me sadly false if I am made to describe all agnostics as cowardly. A much slighter
knowledge than I possess of Prof. Huxley's writings would have certainly ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"me sadly false if I am made to describe all agnostics as cowardly. A much slighter
knowledge than I possess of Prof. Huxley's writings would have certainly ..."
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888)
"The ' cowardly caution which gave you no pleasure,' was suggested to me by a
friend here, to whom I mentioned the strange story and the detection of its ..."
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