Synonyms for coward
Most common
chicken-shit sissy wuss scaredy-cat scaredy pants fraidy cat poltroon recreant
All synonyms
Noun
wuss, wussy informal, scaredy-cat, sissy, milquetoast informal, chicken-shit, weak sister US, scaredy pants, big baby, baby, babby US, invertebrate informal, fraidy cat, poltroon, recreant, funk, bundle of nerves, milksop, dastard, funker, weakling, craven dated, gutless wonder slang, chicken slang, candy-ass vulgar slang US CA, candy-arse UK, caitiff dated, chicken liver slang, yellow belly slang, pullet slang, cocktail slang UK
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who lacks courage.
Near-synonyms: big baby, baby
Related words
- Is a kind of
- person
Forms
- Plural
- cowards → wusses, wussies, scaredy-cats, sissies…
Example sentences
- sissy You're a bit of a sissy, aren't you?
- wuss Felix didn't want Amelia to think he was a wuss.
By length
- 4 letters
- baby2, funk1, wuss1
- 5 letters
- sissy2, babby, wussy
- 6 letters
- craven2, pullet, funker
- 7 letters
- chicken2, milksop, dastard, caitiff
- 8 letters
- cocktail2, weakling2, poltroon, recreant
- 11 letters
- milquetoast
- 12 letters
- invertebrate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (baby2 = 2 syllables).