All timid synonyms
timΒ·id
T t adj timid
- fearful β causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- modest β having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- aspen β An aspen is a tall tree with leaves that move a lot in the wind.
- meek β humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.
- demure β If you describe someone, usually a young woman, as demure, you mean they are quiet and rather shy, usually in a way that you like and find appealing, and behave very correctly.
- in a rut β stuck in routine
- cowardly β If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- bashful β Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- irresolute β not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating.
- hot and cold β (Idiomatic) Ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.
- henpecked β browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- nervous β highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- fearsome β causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- meanspirited β petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- easy-going β calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- hesitant β hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- diffident β lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- faint-hearted β lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- mousy β resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- backward β A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- chicken-hearted β easily frightened; cowardly
- aflutter β in or into a nervous or excited state
- lily-livered β weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- gingerly β with great care or caution; warily.
- invertebrate β Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
- chickenhearted β timid; fearful; cowardly.
- laid back β relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
- conservative β A Conservative politician or voter is a member of or votes for the Conservative Party in Britain.
- easy going β calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- in-effective β not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- longsuffering β enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
adjective timid
- craven β Someone who is craven is very cowardly.
- gutless β lacking courage, fortitude, or determination.
- humble β not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- weak β not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- introvert β a shy person.
- introverted β a shy person.
- forceless β Without force.
- insecure β subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- rabbity β any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- nerveless β without nervousness, as in emergencies; calm; collected.
- cowering β to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- cowhearted β cowardly.
- badgered β any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- fogyish β Characteristic of a fogy.
- falsehearted β Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- amoebalike β Having the characteristics of an amoeba.