Word Meanings - TIMID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,

Additional info about word: TIMID

Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly, adv. -- Tim"id*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIMID)

• Afraid
• Fearful
• apprehensive
• timid
• timorous
• cowardly
• fainthearted
• cautious
• careful
• frightened
• alarmed
• terrified
• suspicious
• distrustful
• anxious
• Faint
• Weak
• languid
• fatigued
• unenergetic
• irresolute
• feeble
• exhausted
• half-hearted
• obscure
• dim
• pale
• faded
• inconspicuous
• Timid
• hesitating
• terrible
• awful
• frightful
• shocking
• terrific
• afraid
• horrible
• dreadful
• Shy
• reserved
• modest
• bashful
• Suspicion
• shrinking
• chary

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TIMID)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to TIMID)

• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• CHARYBDIS
  A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• UNBASHFUL
  Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.