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

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  1. pusillanimous: Legal dictionary

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

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  1. pusillanimous: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity.

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