Timorous

Quick meaning: Timorous is an adjective meaning Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.

Meaning

Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.

More Meanings

1. Fastidious in dressing.
2. Fired with intense feeling; passionate.
3. Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome.
4. Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible.
5. Humble, modest; also, showing reverence; respectful, reverent, reverential.
6. (archaic) Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.

Example Sentences

VVee ſleekit, covvrin, tim'rous beaſtie, / Oh, vvhat a panic's in thy breaſtie!

[T]hey might thank themſelves onely, & their ovvn timerous conceits & imaginations, that ſuch things vvere ſo dread & terrible.

But thou now O temerous ⁊ weake ſely ſhepe, thynke yt ſufficient for thee, onely to walke after me, which am thy ſhepehearde ⁊ gouernor: […]

[I]n his later years, he [James II of England] repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety.

Word Forms

• timerous
• timourous

Synonyms for timorous

Depending on context, synonyms include timorsome, apprehensive, afeared, afraid, alarmed, anxious.

Antonyms for timorous

Common opposites include adventurous, mettlesome, aweless, bad, bold, brass-balled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trepid, timid, fearful, beastie, timerous, timourous.

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