What is another word for pusillanimous?

Pronunciation: [pjˌuːsɪlˈanɪməs] (IPA)

Pusillanimous is a word that is typically used to describe someone who lacks courage or is timid in nature. Similar adjectives that can be used instead of pusillanimous include cowardly, timorous, spineless, fearful, craven, or faint-hearted. These synonyms are often used to describe individuals who are reluctant to take risks or stand up for themselves in challenging situations. Other words that can be used in place of pusillanimous include meek, shy, apprehensive, and diffident. It is important to note that while these words share similar meanings, they can have slightly different connotations and should be used appropriately in the context of the sentence.

Synonyms for Pusillanimous:

What are the hypernyms for Pusillanimous?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for pusillanimous?

Pusillanimous is a word synonymous with cowardly, timid or lacking in courage. However, its antonyms--daring, bold, fearless, courageous-- convey qualities of bravery, fearlessness and audacity. A daring individual is one who takes risks and acts boldly in the face of danger without hesitation. Bold describes someone who exhibits confidence and fearlessness in the face of adversity, while the fearless person is impervious to fear, danger, or pain. Courageous individuals possess the inner strength to do what is right even when it is difficult or dangerous. Thus, antonyms to the word pusillanimous evoke individuals who are not afraid to face their fears and take initiative towards their goals.

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Usage examples for Pusillanimous

What an uncouth, pusillanimous brute I- Just then, even as my hand fell upon the curtains, they were snatched aside and I found myself staring into the vivid, uptilted face of the lady who had defied me and would continue to do so if my suddenly active perceptions counted for anything.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
You did not love this pusillanimous Count, nor did he care a hang for you.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
Prince Bentrik arrived in the midst of an impassioned tirade against pusillanimous traitors surrounding his Majesty who were betraying Marduk to the Space Vikings.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper

Famous quotes with Pusillanimous

  • Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.
    Spiro Agnew
  • Few men have had their elasticity so thoroughly put to the proof as Caesar-- the sole creative genius produced by Rome, and the last produced by the ancient world, which accordingly moved on in the path that he marked out for it until its sun went down. Sprung from one of the oldest noble families of Latium--which traced back its lineage to the heroes of the Iliad and the kings of Rome, and in fact to the Venus-Aphrodite common to both nations--he spent the years of his boyhood and early manhood as the genteel youth of that epoch were wont to spend them. He had tasted the sweetness as well as the bitterness of the cup of fashionable life, had recited and declaimed, had practised literature and made verses in his idle hours, had prosecuted love-intrigues of every sort, and got himself initiated into all the mysteries of shaving, curls, and ruffles pertaining to the toilette-wisdom of the day, as well as into the still more mysterious art of always borrowing and never paying. But the flexible steel of that nature was proof against even these dissipated and flighty courses; Caesar retained both his bodily vigour and his elasticity of mind and of heart unimpaired. In fencing and in riding he was a match for any of his soldiers, and his swimming saved his life at Alexandria; the incredible rapidity of his journeys, which usually for the sake of gaining time were performed by night--a thorough contrast to the procession-like slowness with which Pompeius moved from one place to another-- was the astonishment of his contemporaries and not the least among the causes of his success. The mind was like the body. His remarkable power of intuition revealed itself in the precision and practicability of all his arrangements, even where he gave orders without having seen with his own eyes. His memory was matchless, and it was easy for him to carry on several occupations simultaneously with equal self-possession. Although a gentleman, a man of genius, and a monarch, he had still a heart. So long as he lived, he cherished the purest veneration for his worthy mother Aurelia (his father having died early); to his wives and above all to his daughter Julia he devoted an honourable affection, which was not without reflex influence even on political affairs. With the ablest and most excellent men of his time, of high and of humbler rank, he maintained noble relations of mutual fidelity, with each after his kind. As he himself never abandoned any of his partisans after the pusillanimous and unfeeling manner of Pompeius, but adhered to his friends--and that not merely from calculation--through good and bad times without wavering, several of these, such as Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Matius, gave, even after his death, noble testimonies of their attachment to him.
    Theodor Mommsen
  • Why not? What is to hinder this Samson from governing? There is in him what far transcends all apprenticeships; in the man himself there exists a model of governing, something to govern by! There exists in him a heart-abhorrence of whatever is incoherent, pusillanimous, unveracious,—that is to say, chaotic, _un_governed; of the Devil, not of God. A man of this kind cannot help governing! He has the living ideal of a governor in him; and the incessant necessity of struggling to unfold the same out of him.
    Thomas Carlyle

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