Timid

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking in courage or confidence.
 * John's a very timid person. I'll doubt he'll be brave enough to face his brother.

Synonyms

 * fearful
 * timorous
 * shy

Antonyms

 * daredevil
 * dauntless
 * bellicose
 * reckless
 * agressive

Derived terms

 * timidly

Related terms

 * timidity
 * timidness
 * intimidate
 * intimidation

Adverbs for Timid
modestly; constitutionally; shyly; bashfully; groundlessly; anxiously; deliciously; unreasonably; unwontedly; tremulously; childishly; nervously; foolishly; incredibly; naturally; vaguely; momentarily; secretly; excessively; strangely; distressingly; incomprehensibly; temperamentally; helplessly; hopelessly; unaccountably; uneasily; queerly; curiously; genuinely; unaffectedly; significantly

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
< timide: <  timidus: < timeo:.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: timid
 * Chinese: 膽小, 胆小 (dǎn xiǎo)
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: schuchter,, schroomvallig,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: pelglik
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Ido: timida
 * Italian:, pavido, impaurito
 * Japanese: 憶病な (おくびょうな, okubyōna)
 * Korean: 겁많은 (keopmaneun)
 * Latin: meticulosus, timidus, pavidus
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: робкий (róbkij), застенчивый (zasténchivij)
 * Scottish Gaelic: diùid, gealtach, sgàthach
 * Serbian: snebivljiv
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * 1) timid

Related terms

 * timiditate