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timorous

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  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
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɪməɹəs/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
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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.

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