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timorous
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1 timorous
Timid by nature or revealing timidity:
— Timorous little mouse.
— In a timorous tone.
synoniemen: fearful, trepid.
Roget 881:
modest,
diffident;
humble
etc.
879;
timid,
timorous,
bashful;
shy,
nervous,
skittish,
coy,
sheepish,
shamefaced,
blushing,
overmodest.
unpretending†,
unpretentious;
unobtrusive,
unassuming,
unostentatious,
unboastful†,
unaspiring;
poor in spirit.
out of countenance
etc.
(humbled)
879.
reserved,
constrained,
demure.
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Roget 860:
fearing
etc.
v.;
frightened
etc.
v.;
in fear,
in a fright
etc.
n.;
haunted with the fear of
etc.
n.;
afeard†.
afraid,
fearful;
timid,
timorous;
nervous,
diffident,
coy,
faint-hearted,
tremulous,
shaky,
afraid of one's shadow,
apprehensive,
restless,
fidgety;
more frightened than hurt.
aghast;
awe-stricken,
horror-stricken,
terror-stricken,
panic-stricken,
awestruck,
awe-stricken,
horror-struck;
frightened to death,
white as a sheet;
pale,
pale as a ghost,
pale as death,
pale as ashes;
breathless,
in hysterics.
inspiring fear
etc.
v.;
alarming;
formidable,
redoubtable;
perilous
etc.
(danger)
665;
portentous;
fearful;
dread,
dreadful;
fell;
dire,
direful;
shocking;
terrible,
terrific;
tremendous;
horrid,
horrible,
horrific;
ghastly;
awful,
awe-inspiring;
revolting
etc.
(painful)
830;
Gorgonian.
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Roget 862:
coward,
cowardly;
fearful,
shy;
timid,
timorous;
skittish;
poor-spirited,
spiritless,
soft,
effeminate.
weak-minded;
infirm of purpose
etc.
605;
weak-hearted,
fainthearted,
chickenhearted,
henhearted†,
lilyhearted,
pigeon-hearted;
white-livered†,
lily-livered,
milk-livered†;
milksop,
smock-faced;
unable to say 'boo' to a goose.
dastard,
dastardly;
base,
craven,
sneaking,
dunghill,
recreant;
unwarlike,
unsoldier-like.
in face a lion but in heart a deer. "
unmanned;
frightened
etc.
860.
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Moby betekeniswoordenboek: 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 ... meer laten zien.
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