Timorous

Adjective

 * 1) fearful, afraid, timid
 * 2) * by Robert Burns
 * Wee sleekit, cowrin', tim'rous beastie,
 * Oh, what a panic's in thy breastie!
 * 1) * Episode 16
 * He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment with a glance also of entreaty for he seemed to glean in a kind of a way that it wasn't all exactly.

Synonyms

 * fearful
 * timid
 * shy

Antonyms

 * daredevil
 * dauntless
 * reckless

Adverbs for Timorous
shyly; bashfully; self-consciously; modestly; guiltily; sheepishly; naturally; inherently; merely; habitually; usually; foolishly; sadly; pitiably; miserably; unfortunately; childishly; wretchedly; unreasonably; needlessly; strangely; oddly; curiously; inexplicably; unaccountably;  ridiculously;   positively; actually.

Thesaurus
afraid, bashful, chicken, chickenhearted, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, coy, daunted, demure, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, fearing, fearsome, funking, funky, goosy, henhearted, in fear, inarticulate, intimidated, jumpy, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, nervous, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, quailing, quivering, rabbity, recoiling, scary, self-conscious, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shivering, shivery, shrinking, shuddering, shy, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, soft, stammering, startlish, timid, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, undaring, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow

Etymology
From temoros, from  timorosus, from  timor fear, from timeō to be afraid.

Translations

 * Bosnian:, preplašen
 * French:, , ,
 * Italian:


 * Russian: боязливый
 * Spanish: