Cowardly, pusillanimous, timid, fearful; (also) weak.

Lacking in courage; characterized by cowardice; cowardly, fearful. Also as n.: cowardly people collectively. Cf. heart, n. 11a. Obsolete.

Lacking in vitality, strength, or spirit; cowardly; feeble; anaemic. Cf. blood, n. 4.

Of persons and their attributes: Destitute of courage; faint-hearted; = cowardly, adj. 1.

Wanting in courage, spiritless, cowardly. Obsolete or archaic except in faint heart (now associated with sense 4b).

Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; timid, faint-hearted; lazy, negligent. Now English regional (chiefly northern).

Without courage or strength, spiritless. Obsolete.

Of a person: lacking in courage or strength of purpose; faint-hearted, craven, cowardly.

Having a faint heart; wanting energy, courage, or will to carry a thing through; timid, cowardly. Also absol.

Faint-hearted, spiritless. Obsolete.

= cowardly, adj.

Cowardly, faint-hearted. Cf. chicken-hearted, adj.

= cowardly, adj.

Shirking, cowardly. Obsolete. Cf. feign, v. 13.

Cowardly, feeble-spirited, pusillanimous. Cf. liver, n.1 4b, lily-livered adj. at lily, adj. b.

Having the character or spirit of a coward; wanting in courage; pusillanimous, timorous.

Lacking face or courage; cowardly. Obsolete.

= pusillanimous, adj.

cowardly; cf. lily-livered adj. at lily, adj. b.

Cowardly. Obsolete.

Cowardly.

Like, or after the manner of, a coward; cowardly.

Faint-hearted, timid, spiritless, cowardly.

Without courage.

Resembling a sheep or that of a sheep; esp. in an unfavourable sense.

(a) faint-hearted, timid, cowardly (cf. sense A. 4 and white-livered, adj.); (b) pure-hearted, saintly (cf. sense A. 7).

Extended uses. Of a person, or a person's action, attribute, etc.: soft, gentle; (with unfavourable connotation) timorous, weak, compliant…

Cowardly, lily-livered.

(un-, prefix1 affix 4)

Pale, pallid, colourless, bloodless; lily-livered adj. white-livered, cowardly. lily-liver n. a ‘lily-livered’ person. lily-liveredly adv.

(See quot. 1616.)

Producing flight; cowardly.

Cowardly, faint-hearted. Cf. hen-hearted, adj.

Characteristic of or resembling a poltroon; cowardly; wretched. Now rare.

Faint-hearted, timorous, cowardly.

cowardly.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Lacking in courage, spirit, or fight; cowardly, faint-hearted. Cf. sense A. 4b. Obsolete.

pusillanimous.

Cowardly, faint-hearted. Cf. chicken-hearted, adj.

Designating a coward; cowardly. See white feather, n. 1.

Without pluck; lacking courage or spirit. Also as n. with the and plural agreement: people lacking in courage or spirit as a class.

Timid, faint-hearted. Cf. chicken-hearted, adj.

lacking courage or mettle; cowardly, spiritless.

Cowardly. Used tauntingly by children, esp. in the phrase cowardy, cowardy, custard (formerly costard).

colloquial (originally U.S.). Lacking in courage; faint-hearted; cowardly.

†(a) (apparently) jaundiced (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. colloquial lacking in courage; faint-hearted; cowardly; cf. sense A. 3b, white-livered, adj.

soft-hearted; lacking in courage, cowardly.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Cowardly, afraid; spec. (in predicative use) designating the person who loses his or her nerve first in the game of ‘chicken’ (see chicken, n. 13).

Mean, shirking, cowardly.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Lacking in courage; cowardly. Cf. yellow, adj. 3b.

Of a bull: tame, timid, lacking in aggression.

A timorous person, a coward; = fraidy cat at 'fraid, adj.2 Also as adj., scared, and elliptical, as scaredy.

Cowardly, afraid.

timid, cowardly; also absol.