Timid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Timid \Tim"id\, a. [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam
     to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.]
     Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous;
     not bold; fearful; shy.
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           Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. --Thomson.
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     Syn: Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous;
          faint-hearted; shrinking; retiring.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Tim"id*ly}, adv. -- {Tim"id*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  timid
       adj 1: showing fear and lack of confidence [ant: {bold}]
       2: contemptibly timid
       3: lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and
          abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid
          responses"; "a very unsure young man" [syn: {diffident}, {shy},
           {unsure}]
       4: lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart
          ne'er won fair lady" [syn: {faint}, {fainthearted}]
       n : people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is
           not for the timid" [syn: {cautious}] [ant: {brave}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "timid":
     afraid, apprehensive, bashful, cautious, chicken, chickenhearted,
     confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, coy, craven, daunted,
     demure, demurring, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted, faltering,
     fearful, fearing, fearsome, frightened, funking, funky, goosy,
     gutless, henhearted, hesitant, hesitating, humble, in fear,
     inarticulate, intimidated, jibbing, jumpy, lily-livered,
     milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, modest, mousy, nervous,
     overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted,
     pusillanimous, rabbity, retiring, scared, scary, scrupling,
     self-conscious, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shilly-shallying,
     shivery, shrinking, shy, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish,
     soft, stammering, startlish, sticking, stickling, straining,
     tentative, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant,
     trigger-happy, unassertive, unassured, unmanly, unmanned, weak,
     weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow