Synonyms for COWARDICE
ˈkaʊ ər dɪscow·ardice

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1. cowardicenoun

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness

2. cowardicenoun

   Lack of courage.

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. cowardice

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness, effeminacy, fear, pusillanimity, timidity

   Antonyms:
   bravery, courage, gallantry, heroism, intrepidity, prowess, valor

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.6 / 5 votes

1. cowardice, cowardlinessnoun

   the trait of lacking courage

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness, cowardice

   Antonyms:
   braveness, courage, courageousness, bravery

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1. • Spirit

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. cowardicenoun

   Synonyms:
   pusillanimity, poltroonery, timidity, fear, cowardliness, the white feather

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1. cowardicenoun

   Synonyms:
   pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardy, recreancy, timidity, cowardliness

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1. List of paraphrases for "cowardice":

   cowardly, coward

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How to use COWARDICE in a sentence?

1. Jim Hightower:

   The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

2. Pietro Aretino:

   A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

3. Thomas Paine:

   Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

4. Silvio Carrillo:

   But that didn't make her abandon her fight. her murder is an act of cowardice that will only amplify Bertita's message to bring about change in Honduras and make this a better, more humane world.

5. Steve Thacker:

   The police are putting their lives on the line every day to protect the people, when somebody targets officers like this it is the greatest show of cowardice I've ever seen. So, drop the hammer on them.