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Translate cowardly from English to French

Summary

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cowardly:
- insipide; fade; sans sel
coward:
- couard; lâche; poltron; pleutre; bleu
Wiktionary:
- cowardly → lâche, veule, bas, peureux
- cowardly → lâchement
- cowardly → lâche
- coward → froussarde, poltronne, froussard, poltron, couard, couarde, peureux
- coward → couard, lâche
- coward → lâche, froussard, trouillard

English

Detailed Translations for cowardly from English to French

cowardly:

cowardly adj

cowardly (saltless; bland; craven; abject; faint; dim; cringing)
insipide; fade; sans sel
- insipide adj
- fade adj
- sans sel adj

Translation Matrix for cowardly:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	fearful
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
fade	abject; bland; cowardly; craven; cringing; dim; faint; saltless	bland; boring; corny; deadening; dull; faint; feeble; flat; frail; fusty; pale; saltless; sick; silly; stale; tasteless; unsavory; unsavoury; vapid; wan; weak; without style
insipide	abject; bland; cowardly; craven; cringing; dim; faint; saltless	bland; boring; corny; deadening; dull; faint; feeble; flat; forbidding; frail; pale; repelling; repulsive; revolting; sick; silly; stale; tasteless; unappetising; unappetizing; unsavory; unsavoury; vapid; wan; weak; without style
sans sel	abject; bland; cowardly; craven; cringing; dim; faint; saltless	dull; flat; saltless; tasteless; unsavory; unsavoury

Related Words for "cowardly":

coward

Synonyms for "cowardly":

fearful; caitiff; chicken; chickenhearted; lily-livered; white-livered; yellow; yellow-bellied; craven; recreant; dastard; dastardly; faint; fainthearted; timid; faint-hearted; funky; poltroon; pusillanimous; poor-spirited; unmanly; afraid; ignoble

Antonyms for "cowardly":

brave

Related Definitions for "cowardly":

lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted¹
- cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then¹

Wiktionary Translations for cowardly:

cowardly

adjective

showing cowardice
- cowardly → lâche; veule; bas

adverb

in the manner of a coward
- cowardly → lâchement

cowardly

adjective

Qui est sujet à la peur.
- peureux → afraid; anxious; cowardly; fainthearted; fearful; pusillanimous; shy; timid; timorous; wimpy

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• cowardly	→ lâche	↔ feige — ohne Mut, sich von Angst vor Gefahr leiten lassen

coward:

coward [the ~] nom

the coward (rookie; chicken; freshman; greenhorn; poltroon; novice; dogs and cats; hare's foot)
le couard; le lâche; le poltron; le pleutre; le bleu
- couard [le ~] nom
- lâche [le ~] nom
- poltron [le ~] nom
- pleutre [le ~] nom
- bleu [le ~] nom

Translation Matrix for coward:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
bleu	chicken; coward; dogs and cats; freshman; greenhorn; hare's foot; novice; poltroon; rookie	beginner; bruise; contusion; dungarees; fresh man; freshman; greenhorn; newcomer; novice; overalls; rookie
couard	chicken; coward; dogs and cats; freshman; greenhorn; hare's foot; novice; poltroon; rookie
lâche	chicken; coward; dogs and cats; freshman; greenhorn; hare's foot; novice; poltroon; rookie
pleutre	chicken; coward; dogs and cats; freshman; greenhorn; hare's foot; novice; poltroon; rookie
poltron	chicken; coward; dogs and cats; freshman; greenhorn; hare's foot; novice; poltroon; rookie	scaredy-cat
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	funk; poltroon
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
bleu		blue
lâche		abstemious; bad; cheerless; clumsy; doltish; drab; dreary; dull; faint; feeble; frail; gawky; gloomy; grey; joyless; not very good; owlish; pale; poor; sad; sick; slackly; stiff; uneasy; ungenerously; unhandy; wan; weak; wooden

Related Words for "coward":

cowards, cowardly

Synonyms for "coward":

person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; soul
Coward; Noel Coward; Sir Noel Pierce Coward; dramatist; playwright; actor; histrion; player; thespian; role player; composer

Related Definitions for "coward":

a person who shows fear or timidity¹

Wiktionary Translations for coward:

coward

noun

a person who lacks courage
- coward → froussarde; poltronne; froussard; poltron; couard; couarde

coward

adjective

Qui est poltron, qui n’a pas de courage.
- couard → coward
Qui manque de courage
- lâche → coward

noun

personne peureuse, craintive, facilement effrayé.
- peureux → chicken; chicken-shit; coward; funk; wimp; yellow-belly

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• coward	→ lâche	↔ lafaard — iemand die door zijn angst wegvlucht uit gevaarlijke situaties.
• coward	→ lâche	↔ Feigling — furchtsame, ängstliche, risikoscheue Person
• coward	→ froussard; trouillard	↔ Hasenfuß — ängstlicher Mensch

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¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University