Pusillanimous

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  • adjective. Lacking courage; cowardly.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lacking strength and firmness of mind; wanting in courage and fortitude; being of weak courage; faint-hearted; mean-spirited; cowardly.
  • Proceeding from lack of courage; indicating timidity.
  • Synonyms Poltroon, Dastard, etc. See coward.
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  • Weak, feeble, timorous, spiritless, effeminate, dastardly.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, .
  • adjective. Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
    • Word Usage
    "Meral Ece a Liberal Coucillor is worrying in pusillanimous Liberal way about gun crime in the Gazette."
    Equivalent
    cowardly  fearful  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    animists  magnanimous  unanimous  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arrant  black-hearted  cowardly  craven  dastard  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cowardly  dastardly  fainthearted  feeble  mean-spirited  
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