Synonyms of the word

cowardly

• adj. Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; basely or weakly fearful.
• adv. (archaic) In the manner of a coward, cowardlily.

afraid

• adj. (usually used predicatively, not attributively) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
• adj. (colloquial) regretful, sorry.

caitiff

• n. A base or despicable person; a wretch.
• n. (obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave.
• n. (archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch.
• adj. Especially despicable; cowardly.

chicken

• n. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
• n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• n. (countable, slang) A coward.
• n. (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
• n. (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
• n. The game of dare.
• adj. (informal) Cowardly.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

chickenhearted

• adj. Alternative form of chicken-hearted.

craven

• adj. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
• n. A coward.
• v. To make craven.

dastard

• n. A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
• adj. Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.
• v. To dastardize.

dastardly

• adj. in the manner of a dastard; marked by cowardice; pusillanimous.
• adj. treacherous; given to backstabbing.

faint

• adj. (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness.
• adj. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
• adj. hardly perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
• adj. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
• adj. Slight; minimal.
• n. The act of fainting, syncope.
• n. (rare) The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
• v. (intransitive) To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as…
• v. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
• v. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

faint-hearted

• adj. Lacking courage; timid.

fainthearted

• adj. Faint of heart; irresolute; fearful.

fearful

• adj. Frightening.
• adj. (now rare) Frightened, filled with terror.
• adj. Tending to fear.
• adj. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.

funky

• adj. (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
• adj. (US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
• adj. (slang, Britain, US) Cool; great; excellent.
• adj. Having or relating to the smell of funk.
• adj. (music) Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
• adj. (Britain, slang, dated) Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.

ignoble

• adj. Not noble; plebeian; common.
• adj. Not honorable; base.
• adj. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.

lily-livered

• adj. (idiomatic) Cowardly, lacking bravery.

poltroon

• n. An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
• adj. Cowardly.

pusillanimous

• adj. Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity.

recreant

• adj. (now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
• adj. (now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
• n. Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward.

timid

• adj. Lacking in courage or confidence.

unmanly

• adj. (of a person) Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly,…
• adj. Of or pertaining to something not human.
• adj. (of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.
• adj. (of a behaviour or action) Not acceptable of a man.
• adj. (of a behaviour or action) Not becoming of a man.
• adv. In a manner that is unmanly.

white-livered

• adj. Archaic form of lily-livered.

yellow

• adj. Having yellow as its colour.
• adj. (informal) Lacking courage.
• adj. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
• adj. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
• adj. (dated, US) High yellow.
• adj. (Britain, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
• n. The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting…
• n. (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that…
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
• n. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally…
• n. (sports) A yellow card.
• v. (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

yellow-bellied

• adj. Of an animal or reptile having a yellow underside or belly.
• adj. (figuratively) Uncourageous, cowardly.