- Excess of fear.
- Rashness (Substantives), temerity, audacity, presumption, precipitation, recklessness, overboldness, foolhardiness, desperation, Quixotism; carelessness, want of caution 460, 823, over-confidence.
A lion, tiger, bulldog, gamecock, fighting-cock, sportsman.
(Verbs). To be courageous, etc., to face, front, affront, confront, despise, brave, defy, etc., danger; to take courage; to summon up, muster up, or pluck up courage; to rally.
To venture, make bold, face, defy, brave, beard, hold out, bear up against, stand up to.
(Phrases). To look in the face; to come up to the scratch; to "screw one's courage to the sticking-place"; to die game.
To give, infuse, or inspire courage; to encourage, embolden, inspirit.
(Phrases). To pat on the back; to make a man of.
(Adjectives). Courageous, brave, valiant, valorous, gallant, intrepid.
Spirited, high-spirited, high-mettled, mettlesome, self-reliant, manly, manful, resolute, stout, stout-hearted, lion-hearted, heart of oak, firm, indomitable, sportsmanlike.
Bold, daring, audacious, fearless, unfearing, dreadless, undaunted, aweless, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching, unshrinking, unblenching, unblenched, unapprehensive, confident.
Enterprising, venturous, adventurous, venturesome, dashing, chivalrous, heroic, fierce, savage.
Unfeared, undreaded, etc.
(Phrases). Up to the scratch; brave as a lion; bold as brass; brave to the backbone; full of beans.
Cowardice (Substantives), pusillanimity, cowardliness, timidity, fearfulness, spiritlessness, faint-heartedness, softness, effeminacy, funk.
Poltroonery, baseness, dastardliness, Dutch courage, the white feather, a faint heart.
A coward, poltroon, dastard, recreant, funk, dunghill-cock, milksop, cry-baby.
A runaway, fugitive.
(Verbs). To quail, etc. 860, to flinch, fight shy, shy, turn tail, run away, cut and run, fly for one's life, stampede.
(Phrases). To show the white feather; to be in a sweat.
(Adjectives). Coward, cowardly, pusillanimous, shy, timid, skittish, timorous, poor - spirited, spiritless, weak-hearted, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, lily-hearted, pigeon-hearted, white-livered, lily-livered, milk- livered, milksop.
Dastard, dastardly, base, craven dunghill, recreant, unwarlike, unheroic.
(Phrase). "In face a lion, but in heart a deer."
(Interjections). Sauve qui peut! "The devil take the hindmost!"
Imprudence, indiscretion.