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Coward vs Weakling - What's the difference?

coward | weakling |

As a proper noun coward

is .

As an adjective weakling is

weak, either physically, morally or mentally.

As a noun weakling is

a person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.

coward

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who lacks courage.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

    Synonyms

    * chicken * See also

    Derived terms

    * cowardly * cowardice

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cowardly.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
  • * Prior
    • Invading fears repel my coward joy.
  • (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
    • English words suffixed with -ard

    weakling

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • weak, either physically, morally or mentally

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution
  • (figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
  • * Latimer
    • We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

    Synonyms

    * (person of weak character) sissy, walk-over

    Antonyms

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    References

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