coward:
(plural: ‘cowards‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound — for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a coward running away from danger
a person who is not brave;
a person who shows fear when faced with responsibility, opposition, etc.;
a person who runs away from danger or difficulty;
a person who does not have courage or moral strength to point out some defect or fault;
a person who is timid and shows fear in a shameful way,
a coward, a man being bullied by children
Tom is such a coward that he’s afraid of dark and never walks alone in his own garden without lights on and somebody with him.
Little Nikki had thought that people who avoided going to a dentist were all cowards until the day she had to visit a dentist herself, and right away changed her opinion, and since then has never showed any interest in going to a dentist and never talked about cowards!
Some people think that avoiding dangers and turning away from pain are not signs of cowardice because there may be several factors that contribute to a person’s state of mind at any given time, such as a family man who runs away from a fight is not a coward, for he has his family to look after, but the real coward is the one who is afraid of telling the truth even to his own self.
