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Daunt vs Dastard - What's the difference?

daunt | dastard |

As verbs the difference between daunt and dastard

is that daunt is to discourage, intimidate while dastard is to dastardize.

As a noun dastard is

a malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.

As an adjective dastard is

meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.

daunt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to discourage, intimidate
  • to overwhelm

    • Derived terms

    * daunted * daunter * daunting * dauntingly * dauntless * undaunted

    dastard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You are all recreants and dastards , and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IV, ''Happy
    • Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times. ‘Happiness our being’s end and aim’ is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world.

    References

    *
    The Free Dictionary: Dastard

    Derived terms

    * dastardly * dastardness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dastardize.
    • (Dryden)