Timorous \Tim"or*ous\, a. [LL. timorosus, from L. timor fear;
akin to timere to fear. See Timid.]
1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. "The
timorous apostasy of chuchmen." --Milman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
timorous
adj : timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little
mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at
the large dog" [syn: fearful, trepid]
WordNet (r) 2.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "timorous":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
fearful, trepid
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