TIMID DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
timid adj 1: showing fear and lack of confidence [ant: bold] 2: 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, timid, unsure] [ant: confident] 3: lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" [syn: faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted] n 1: people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid" [syn: timid, cautious] [ant: brave] timid dimit timid 1549, from M.Fr. timide "easily frightened, shy," from L. timidus "fearful," from timere "to fear." Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary timid 1. Timid people are shy, nervous, and have no courage or confidence in themselves. A timid child, Isabella had learned obedience at an early age. ≠ confident ADJ • timidity She doesn't ridicule my timidity. N-UNCOUNT • timidly The little boy stepped forward timidly and shook Leo's hand. ADV: usu ADV with v 2. If you describe someone's attitudes or actions as timid, you are criticizing them for being too cautious or slow to act, because they are nervous about the possible consequences of their actions. The President's critics say he has been too timid in responding to changing international developments... = hesitant ≠ assertive ADJ [disapproval] • timidity He was soon disillusioned by the government's timidity on social reform. N-UNCOUNT • timidly A number of these states are moving timidly towards multi-party democracy. ADV: ADV with v English Explanatory Dictionary timid ˈtɪmɪd adj. (timider, timidest) easily frightened; apprehensive, shy. øøtimidity n. timidly adv. timidness n. [F timide or L timidus f. timere fear] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms timid a. 1. Timorous, fearful, skittish, shy, cowardly, pusillanimous, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, easily frightened. 2. Diffident, bashful, retiring, coy, shrinking, blushing, shame-faced, over-modest. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) timid ˈtɪmɪd adj. shy, retiring, modest, coy, bashful, diffident, timorous, fearful, apprehensive, mousy, scared, frightened, nervous, cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, Colloq chicken-hearted, yellow, yellow-bellied, chicken, chicken-livered, lily-livered, gutless: I knew this strapping marine when he was a timid little boy. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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