All timorous synonyms
tim·or·ous
T t adj timorous
- afraid — If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- craven — Someone who is craven is very cowardly.
- aspen — An aspen is a tall tree with leaves that move a lot in the wind.
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- bashful — Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- fluctuant — fluctuating; varying; unstable.
- nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- fearsome — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- mousy — resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- diffident — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- aflutter — in or into a nervous or excited state
- laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
adjective timorous
- withdrawn — past participle of withdraw.
- weak — not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- rabbity — 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.
- cowhearted — cowardly.
- falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- wimpish — of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.
- nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
- wussy — a weakling; wimp.
- jumpy — subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.
- wimpy — of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.
adverb timorous
- bashfully — In a bashful manner.
adv timorous
- fearfully — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
- diffidently — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
noun timorous
- humility — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- diffidence — the quality or state of being diffident.
- fawning — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- nonresistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
- obsequiousness — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- mousiness — The property of being mousy.
- docility — easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.