Synonyms for timorous
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Timid — feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened
timid, fearful, afraid, cowardly, tremulous, bashful, skittish, apprehensive, nervous, faint-hearted, spineless, chicken, trepid, diffident, craven, faint, pusillanimous, milk-livered dated
Other
timorsome dated UK
Definitions
- adj. 1
Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.
Related words
- Word family
- timorously timorousness timorsome
Example sentences
- afraid He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
- fearful “People are very fearful of the virus,” he added.
- cowardly Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
- timid She seems oddly shy and timid for a press officer.
By length
- 5 letters
- faint1, timid2
- 6 letters
- afraid2, craven2, trepid
- 7 letters
- chicken2, nervous2, fearful2, bashful2
- 8 letters
- cowardly3, skittish2
- 9 letters
- spineless2, diffident, tremulous3, timorsome
- 12 letters
- apprehensive4
- 13 letters
- pusillanimous5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (timid2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- timoré