cowardice

Other forms of cowardice

plural

cowardices·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cowardice

What does cowardice mean?

cowardice means "the trait of lacking courage".

How many syllables are in cowardice?

cowardice has 3 syllables: co-war-dice. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊɚdəs/.

What is another word for cowardice?

Close synonyms include cowardliness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cowardice?

The recorded antonyms are courage.

Is cowardice a common word?

cowardice is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.