Cowardly
Cowardly adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Easily scared and cowardly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Easily scared" instead an adjective "Cowardly".
Easily scared
Cowardly and easily scared are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cowardly" instead an adjective phrase "Easily scared".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- nervous and cowardly
- nervous and easily scared
- cowering and cowardly
- cowering and easily scared
- chicken and cowardly
- chicken and easily scared
- craven and cowardly
- craven and easily scared
- timid and cowardly
- timid and easily scared
- fearful and cowardly
- fearful and easily scared
- spineless and cowardly
- spineless and easily scared
Both terms in one sentence
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Cowardly Lion: He's easily scared out of his wits by most of the horror games he plays, but he'll keep pressing on.
Source: Lets Play / Yamimash - Usopp in One Piece gets easily scared by a lot of things, especially his group's enemies... but the fear of losing his friends/allies is greater for him that it motivates him to fight the enemies, although in his own cowardly way.
Source: Motivated By Fear
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