POLTROON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poltroon mean? 

• POLTROON (noun)
  The noun POLTROON has 1 sense:

1. an abject coward

  Familiarity information: POLTROON used as a noun is very rare.

• POLTROON (adjective)
  The adjective POLTROON has 1 sense:

1. characterized by complete cowardliness

  Familiarity information: POLTROON used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLTROON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abject coward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

craven; poltroon; recreant

Hypernyms ("poltroon" is a kind of...):

coward (a person who shows fear or timidity)

Derivation:

poltroon (characterized by complete cowardliness)

• POLTROON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by complete cowardliness

Similar:

cowardly; fearful (lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted)

Derivation:

poltroon (an abject coward)

 Context examples 

What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)