timid

timid
    adj 1: showing fear and lack of confidence [ant: {bold}]
    2: lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and
       abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses";
       "a very unsure young man" [syn: {diffident}, {shy}, {timid},
       {unsure}] [ant: {confident}]
    3: lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er
       won fair lady" [syn: {faint}, {fainthearted}, {timid},
       {faint-hearted}]
    n 1: people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is
         not for the timid" [syn: {timid}, {cautious}] [ant:
         {brave}]
    

Timid \Tim"id\, a. [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam
   to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.]
   Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous;
   not bold; fearful; shy.
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         Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. --Thomson.
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   Syn: Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous;
        faint-hearted; shrinking; retiring.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Tim"id*ly}, adv. -- {Tim"id*ness}, n.
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88 Moby Thesaurus words for "timid":
      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