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PUSILLANIMOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pusillanimous mean?
• PUSILLANIMOUS (adjective)
The adjective PUSILLANIMOUS has 1 sense:
1. lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
Familiarity information: PUSILLANIMOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
Synonyms:
poor-spirited; pusillanimous; unmanly
Similar:
cowardly; fearful (lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted)
Derivation:
pusillanimity; pusillanimousness (contemptible fearfulness)
Context examples
There are such women, and they will love you just as readily as any pusillanimous product of bourgeois sheltered life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Just so, pusillanimous; prattling out little moralities that have been prattled into them, and afraid to live life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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