pusillanimously

1. 1.

   with a lack of courage and determination

   “simperingly, the accused begged for mercy”

   Synonymssimperingly

Questions about pusillanimously

What does pusillanimously mean?

pusillanimously means "with a lack of courage and determination".

How many syllables are in pusillanimously?

pusillanimously has 6 syllables and divides as pu-sil-la-ni-mou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pusillanimously?

Close synonyms include simperingly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pusillanimously a common word?

pusillanimously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.