I. noun
one who shows or yields to ignoble fear
a treacherous coward who betrayed his friends to save his own skin
Synonyms: chicken, craven, dastard, funk, funker, poltroon, quitter, yellowbelly
Related Word: baby, fraidycat, invertebrate, jellyfish, milksop, scaredy-cat; caitiff, recreant
Contrasted words: gallant, hero, palladin, stalwart; ideal, model, pattern, standard
II. adjective
Synonyms: cowardly , ||chicken, craven, gutless, lily-livered, poltroonish, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, spunkless, unmanly