- lacking courage - Lacking courage like playwright Noel? - Lily-livered - Wimpish - Yellow-bellied - Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful;
pusillanimous; spiritless. - Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences;
befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.
- Afraid - Lacking courage - Terrible - Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. - inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage;
timid. - Indicating, or caused by, fear. - Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror;
terrible; frightful; dreadful.