Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of apprehensiveness; timid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fearful; timid; shy; shrinking.
- Betokening or proceeding from lack of boldness or courage; characterized by fear; weakly hesitant: as, timorous doubts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.
- adjective Indicating, or caused by, fear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
fearful ,afraid ,timid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective timid by nature or revealing timidity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Where our difficulties lie, and what prompts the fears of the timorous, is in the fact that we have not made commensurate advances in every sector of human knowledge.
The Contribution of Creative Chemistry to the Humanities 1957
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There is, indeed, a kind of timorous atheism in the man who dares not trust God to render all efforts to interpret his Wordand what is criticism but interpretation?
Style. 1908
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There was no threat in that reach, nothing tentative nor timorous.
CHAPTER 1 2010
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But seeing as you asked in such a gratifyingly timorous manner, I'll give you a three word clue: Topshop gift certificate.
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Er, they weren't asked by timorous analysts. @r4today.
Apple announces record profits of $6bn as Steve Jobs hails 'phenomenal' sales 2011
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She is timorous and excited, elated and at the same time frightened.
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But cajoling the more timorous to leave the building's downstairs social area to venture upstairs, on time, to a place where discipline is expected needs more effort.
Belshazzar's Feast; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas project – review 2011
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She is timorous and excited, elated and at the same time frightened.
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A divided Europe, which includes a timorous Germany and an Italy preoccupied with the prime minister's bunga bunga parties, will yield.
Washington's Dithering on Libya Eliot Cohen 2011
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Though unperturbed by the footfalls of the chance pedestrian, he was as keyed up and sensitive and ready to be startled as any timorous deer.
JUST MEAT 2010
brtom commented on the word timorous
"Ah! seest thou not an ambushed Cupid there,
Too timorous of his charge, with jealous care
Veils and unveils those beams of heavenly light ..."
Sheridan, School for Scandal
January 2, 2008