cowardly

Adjective

Lacking courage; fainthearted or timid.
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; - P.B.Shelley
- "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"

Adj

Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; weakly fearful.

Adv

In the manner of a coward, cowardlily.

Examples

Making only safe, low-scoring plays can be a cowardly approach to Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English *cowardly (adjective) and cowardly (adverb), equivalent to coward + -ly. Displaced native Old English earg.

Synonyms

fearful, boneless, chicken, chicken-hearted, chickenshit, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, gutless, heartless, hen-hearted, kiasi, lily-livered, milky, mousy, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, sissy, spineless, timid, timorous, unhearty, weak-kneed, wimpish, yellow, yellow-bellied

Antonyms

brave

Scrabble Score: 17

cowardly: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cowardly: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cowardly: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

cowardly: valid Words With Friends Word