Nervous vs Coward - What's the difference?
nervous | coward |
(obscure) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
* '>citation
Easily agitated or alarmed; on edge or edgy.
Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
Relating to or affecting the nerves.
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 adjectives the difference between nervous and coward
is that nervous is of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful while coward is cowardly.As a noun coward is
a person who lacks courage.As a proper noun Coward is
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English
(wikipedia nervous)Adjective
(en adjective)- the central nervous system
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* calm, relaxedDerived terms
* nervously * nervousness * nervous breakdown * nervous energy * autonomic nervous system * central nervous system * enteric nervous system * parasympathetic nervous system * peripheral nervous system * sympathetic nervous systemReferences
* *coward
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.