Impish vs Coward - What's the difference?
impish | coward |
mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
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A person who lacks courage.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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
* Prior
(heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
English words suffixed with -ard
As an adjective impish
is mischievous; of or befitting an imp.As a proper noun coward is
.impish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.}}
citation, passage=But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.}}
Synonyms
* (naughtily or annoyingly playful): implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckishcoward
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 alsoDerived terms
* cowardly * cowardiceAdjective
(en adjective)- He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
- Invading fears repel my coward joy.