Dictionary Definition
cowed adj : frightened into submission or
compliance [syn: browbeaten, bullied, hangdog, intimidated]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -aʊd
Adjective
- Frightened into submission.
Synonyms
Verb
cowed- past of cow
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
afraid,
aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, daunted, deadly pale, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, frozen, funking, funky, gray with fear, henhearted, horrified, horror-struck,
intimidated,
lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, pale as
death, pallid,
panic-prone, panicky,
paralyzed, petrified, pigeonhearted, rabbity, scared stiff, scared to
death, sissified,
sissy, soft, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed,
terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken,
terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, timid, timorous, undone, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered,
yellow