Roget's Thesaurus

#862. Cowardice

Nouns

cowardice, pusillanimity; cowardliness etc. adj.; timidity, effeminacy. poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear etc. 860; 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) 623.

Verbs

quail etc. (fear) 860; be cowardly etc. adj., be a coward etc. n.; funk; cower, skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away etc. (avoid) 623; show, the white feather.

Adjectives

coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate. weak-minded; infirm of purpose etc. 605; 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. 860.

Interjections

sauve qui peut! [Fr.], every man for himself! [Fr.Tr.]; devil take the hindmost!,

Phrases

ante tubam trepidat [Lat.], one's courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit [Lat.] [Vergil].