Usually means: Lacking courage, timid, easily frightened.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pusillanimous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pusillanimous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pusillanimous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pusillanimous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pusillanimous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pusillanimous, pusillanimous: Wordnik
  7. pusillanimous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pusillanimous: Wiktionary
  9. pusillanimous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pusillanimous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pusillanimous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pusillanimous, pusillanimous: Dictionary.com
  13. pusillanimous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Pusillanimous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pusillanimous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pusillanimous: Rhymezone
  17. pusillanimous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pusillanimous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. pusillanimous: Free Dictionary
  20. pusillanimous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. pusillanimous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pusillanimous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. pusillanimous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Pusillanimous: World Wide Words

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  1. pusillanimous: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pusillanimous: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pusillanimous: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity.

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