English-Thai Dictionary

cowardice

N ความขี้ขลาด  cowardliness kwam-ke-klad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COWARDICE

n.Want of courage to face danger; timidity; pusillanimity; fear of exposing ones person to danger. Cowardice alone is loss of fame.
Did cowardice; did injustice ever save a sinking state.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

COWARDICE

Cow "ard *ice (-s ), n. Etym: [F. couardise, fr. couard. See Coward. ]

 

Defn: Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cowardice

cow ard ice |ˈkou-ərdəs ˈkaʊ (ə )rdəs | ▶noun lack of bravery. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French couardise, from couard (see coward ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

cowardice

cow ¦ard |ice |ˈkaʊədɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] lack of bravery. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French couardise, from couard (see coward ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cowardice

cowardice noun he was charged with displaying cowardice in the face of the enemy: faint-heartedness, spiritlessness, spinelessness, timidity, timorousness, fearfulness, pusillanimity, weakness, feebleness; informal gutlessness, wimpishness, wimpiness, sissiness; Brit. informal wetness; archaic poltroonery, recreancy, poor-spiritedness; rare cravenness. ANTONYMS bravery, courage.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cowardice

cow ard ice /káʊə r dɪs /名詞 U 臆 （おく ）病 (な行為 ), 卑怯 （ひきよう ）(↔bravery , courage ).