timorous

Meaning

1. Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.
2. (archaic) Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.
3. (UK, dialectal) Fastidious in dressing.
4. (UK, dialectal) Fired with intense feeling; passionate.
5. (UK, dialectal) Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome.
6. (obsolete) Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible.
7. (obsolete) Humble, modest; also, showing reverence; respectful, reverent, reverential.

Opposite of

afraid, cowardly, cautious, fearful, frightened, meek, shy, timid, uncourageous, unhearty, brave, daredevil, dauntless, temerarious, untimorous

Synonyms

timid

fearful

😨

shy

afraid

faint-hearted

pusillanimous

bashful

cowardly

anxious

sheepish

trepid

craven

wild

coward

scared

mousy

skittish

skulker

sore

spineless

tender

unadventurous

unobtrusive

white livered

wimpy

worried

😟

yellow

chicken hearted

blate

weak kneed

boggler

abashed

lily livered

aspen

chickenhearted

chicken-hearted

dastardly

demure

faint

fainthearted

frightened

impatient

mealymouthed

modest

mousey

scary

sensitive

shamefaced

Translations

timoré

tímido

bang

timoroso

schuw

angstig

😨

bang

craintif

😟

ängstlich

😨

timorée

craintive

angoscioso

peureux

😨

timide

zaghaft

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɪməɹəs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

From Late Middle English timorous (“(adjective) fearful, frightened; causing fear, dreadful, terrible; deferential, modest; (noun) timid people collectively”), borrowed from Old French temoros, temorous, from Medieval Latin timōrōsus, from timōr- (the stem of Latin timor (“dread, fear”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’). Timor is derived from timeō (“to be afraid of, fear”) (further origin uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). Doublet of timoroso.