timorous
Adjective Satellite
- timid by nature or revealing timidity
- "timorous little mouse"
- "in a timorous tone"
Adj
- Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.
- Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.
- Fastidious in dressing.
- Fired with intense feeling; passionate.
- Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome.
- Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible.
- Humble, modest; also, showing reverence; respectful, reverent, reverential.
Adjective
- Showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or lack of confidence.
Examples
- The TIMOROUS player hesitated, afraid to open up a triple word score for their opponent.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
fearful, trepid, afeared, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, chicken, frightened, frit, horrified, mortified, panicked, scared, terrified, timorous, timorsome, worried
Antonyms
afraid, brave, cautious, cowardly, daredevil, dauntless, fearful, frightened, meek, shy, temerarious, timid, uncourageous, unhearty, untimorous
Scrabble Score: 10
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