Emotions / B2

KOW-uh-d/ˈkaʊəd/

A coward is a person who is too afraid to do something difficult or dangerous: call someone a coward; cowardice. Cowardly is the adjective; hero is a contrast, not a synonym. Calling a witness a coward is not analysis; quote the named fear. Mix-up: coward vs cowardice (the noun for the quality); cower; do not write coward as an insult in a write-up with no source line.

Meaning

A person who is too afraid to do something difficult or dangerous.

Examples

• “Calling a witness a coward is not analysis; quote the named fear in the source.”
• “Cowardice in the dispatch still needs a named order, which is the history sense — evaluate the source bias.”

Good to know

a coward; cowardice; cowardly. Contrast: hero / brave. Trap: cower. History, literature, and citizenship. A person too afraid to act — quote the fear; do not use it as a slogan insult.

Near in meaning

craven, faintheart, wretch

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