Definition for Dastard:

• das'tard, n. a cowardly fellow.-- adj. shrinking from danger: cowardly.-- adj. and adv. DAS'TARDLY.-- ns. DAS'TARDNESS, DAS'TARDLINESS, DAS'TARDY. [ From a Scand. stem dast = Eng. dazed, and Fr. suffix - ard. See DAZE.]

Synonyms for Dastard:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • dastardly,
  • dastard.

• n.

  •
  • fear,
  • funk,
  • poltroon.
  •chicken (noun)
  • yellow bellies,
  • scaredy cats.
  •coward (noun)
  • recreant,
  • cad.
  •cowardly (noun)
  • cowardly.
  •craven (noun)
  • wusses,
  • wheyfaces.
  •dastard (noun)
  • fearful.
  •devil (noun)
  • arch-fiends,
  • arch-fiend,
  • common enemies,
  • dickenses,
  • the fury,
  • evil ones,
  • arch fiends,
  • the dicken,
  • dybbuks,
  • diablos,
  • prince darkness,
  • mephistopheleses,
  • dybbukim.
  •poltroon (noun)
  • yellowbelly.
  •scoundrel (noun)
  • re-probate,
  • re-probates,
  • in-corrigible,
  • good for nothing,
  • uncaring others bad egg,
  • in corrigible,
  • neer-do-well,
  • re probate,
  • neer do well,
  • ne'er do well.
  •sneak (noun)
  • in-former,
  • in-formers,
  • snake grass,
  • in formers,
  • in former.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • yellow-belly.

Antonyms for Dastard:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    brave, daredevil, hero, valiant, courageous, stalwart.

Dastard Sentence Examples:

• Again our veteran eagles plumed their wings, And forth he fled from Montezuma's shores - A dastard flight - betraying unto death Him whom he dazzled with a bauble crown.

• Finally sense, rhyme and meter were attuned: - afar, A dastard she met, their sweet idyl to mar.

Homophones for Dastard:

• doctorate, dog-tired, distort, destroyed, dish the dirt, dexterity, distorted, distrait, Dutch Treat, dogtrot.

Hyponym for Dastard:

• n.

  • person
    coward.