What is another word for timid?
646 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ tˈɪmɪd], [ tˈɪmɪd], [ t_ˈɪ_m_ɪ_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for timid:- afraid (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- backward (adjective)
- bashful (adjective)
- conservative (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- coy (adjective)
- demure (adjective)
- diffident (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- fearsome (adjective)
- frightened (adjective)
- gingerly (adjective)
- henpecked (adjective)
- hesitant (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- irresolute (adjective)
- lily-livered (adjective)
- mean-spirited (adjective)
- meek (adjective)
- modest (adjective)
- mousy (adjective)
- nervous (adjective)
- recreant (adjective)
- retiring (adjective)
- self-effacing (adjective)
- sheepish (adjective)
- shrinking (adjective)
- spineless (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- tremulous (adjective)
- unmanly (adjective)
- unsociable (adjective)
- vacillant (adjective)
- weak-willed (adjective)
- cautious (noun)
- cowardly (noun)
- faint (noun)
- fainthearted (noun)
- mousey (noun)
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- other relevant words
Synonyms for Timid:
adj.
•afraid (adjective)- more daunted,
- dis-mayed,
- most spooked,
- dis tressed,
- dis-heartened,
- most cowed,
- more aroused,
- up-set,
- dis-tressed,
- most trembling,
- most faint hearted,
- more rattled,
- more terror stricken,
- most daunted,
- most rattled,
- more spooked,
- most aroused,
- most terror stricken,
- more trembling,
- more terror-stricken,
- most dismayed,
- panic stricken,
- most disheartened,
- most terror-stricken,
- co-wed,
- faint hearted,
- dis heartened,
- dis mayed,
- terror stricken,
- more dismayed,
- more faint-hearted,
- more terrorstricken,
- more faint hearted,
- worried,
- have cold feet,
- most terrorstricken,
- co wed,
- most faint-hearted,
- panicstricken,
- scared death,
- terrorstricken,
- more disheartened,
- more cowed.
- in-disposed,
- more uneager,
- un-willing,
- in disposed,
- dis-inclined,
- un willing,
- un-eager,
- re served,
- most uneager,
- re-served,
- dis inclined,
- un eager.
- most blushful,
- un assertive,
- most verecund,
- most overmodest,
- most recoiling,
- self-conscious,
- selfconscious,
- more verecund,
- over modest,
- more recoiling,
- Verecund,
- self conscious,
- re-coiling,
- more blushful,
- re coiling,
- most unassertive,
- more overmodest,
- un-assertive,
- more unassertive.
- more fuddyduddy,
- un changeable,
- more fuddy duddy,
- un creative,
- more fogyish,
- most fuddyduddy,
- most fuddy duddy,
- right center,
- in-flexible,
- Quieter,
- un daring,
- in flexible,
- un progressive,
- most fuddy-duddy,
- more fuddy-duddy,
- un-changing,
- obstinate,
- toriest,
- fogyish,
- un-progressive,
- most redneck,
- hidebound,
- fuddy duddy,
- un imaginative,
- fuddyduddy,
- more redneck,
- torier,
- most fogyish,
- un changing,
- un-changeable,
- quietest,
- un-imaginative,
- most undaring,
- un-daring,
- un-creative,
- more undaring.
- more unassured,
- de-mure,
- strait laced,
- un-assuming,
- un assuming,
- unassuming,
- un assured,
- un-assured,
- de mure,
- most unassured.
- in-securer,
- dis trustful,
- in-securest,
- un sure,
- more blenching,
- in securer,
- more unpoised,
- un poised,
- most flinching,
- in-secure,
- in securest,
- Unpoised,
- more flinching,
- dis-trustful,
- un-obtrusive,
- un-sure,
- un obtrusive,
- with drawn,
- in secure,
- most unpoised,
- most blenching,
- with-drawn,
- un-poised.
- agitated,
- startled,
- unnerved,
- apprehensive,
- rattled,
- horrified,
- jittery,
- petrified,
- Harrowed,
- chicken-livered,
- scared,
- paralyzed,
- frightened,
- alarmed,
- terrified,
- lily-livered,
- intimidated,
- anxious.
- under one's thumb,
- led by the nose,
- wife-ridden,
- in fear of one's wife,
- under thumb,
- subjected to nagging.
- de-laying,
- in decisive,
- un-predictable,
- de laying,
- Half-hearted,
- most faltering,
- un predictable,
- more dawdling,
- in-decisive,
- more faltering,
- doubting,
- most dawdling.
- long suffering,
- most zero,
- re-signed,
- more milquetoast,
- most pabulum,
- more pabulum,
- more zero,
- most nothing,
- un resisting,
- un-resisting,
- most unresisting,
- most milquetoast,
- more nothing,
- longsuffering,
- re signed,
- most longanimous,
- more unresisting,
- more longanimous.
- more nervous,
- ex citable,
- more flustered,
- ex-citable,
- more ruffled,
- un-strung,
- un restful,
- fidgety,
- up-tight,
- most unrestful,
- un-restful,
- most ruffled,
- taut,
- highstrung,
- high strung,
- more unrestful,
- most flustered,
- un strung,
- unstrung,
- up tight.
- most nongregarious,
- un-expansive,
- most unexpansive,
- most unaffable,
- recessive,
- non gregarious,
- more reclusive,
- re-strained,
- un affable,
- more unexpansive,
- un expansive,
- un-affable,
- re tiring,
- more nongregarious,
- re-tiring,
- more unaffable,
- re strained.
- invertebrate,
- most forceless,
- most pithless,
- more invertebrate,
- in vertebrate,
- more forceless,
- in-vertebrate,
- in-adequate,
- in adequate,
- more pithless,
- most invertebrate,
- in-effective,
- in effective,
- more amoebalike,
- most amoebalike.
- more unnerved,
- more bullied,
- most browbeaten,
- un nerved,
- most bullied,
- more badgered,
- most unnerved,
- un-nerved,
- more browbeaten,
- most badgered.
- more aspen,
- most aspen,
- more palpitating,
- more quavering,
- ex-cited,
- most quavering,
- most palpitating,
- ex cited.
- more unneighborly,
- in accessible,
- most unforthcoming,
- up-pity,
- laidback,
- most brooding,
- un sociable,
- un approachable,
- un bending,
- stuckup,
- un-sociable,
- in hospitable,
- un-bending,
- un-approachable,
- most easy going,
- more easy going,
- un-communicative,
- most unneighborly,
- up pity,
- in-hospitable,
- un forthcoming,
- un-congenial,
- in-accessible,
- more unforthcoming,
- un congenial,
- un-forthcoming,
- more easy-going,
- more brooding,
- un neighborly,
- un-neighborly.
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- decide,
- Shilly-shally.
Other synonyms:
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- pendulous.
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- awkward.
- facile,
- capricious,
- hurt,
- cowardice,
- corrupt,
- straining,
- awfully,
- bullied,
- Fearing,
- shilly-shallying,
- ineffectual,
- biddable,
- court,
- chary,
- unwilling,
- encourage,
- Stickling,
- under control,
- fear,
- lightheaded,
- browbeaten,
- withdrawing,
- dainty,
- irresponsible,
- unmanned,
- affected,
- standoffish,
- compliant,
- canny,
- stammering,
- evasive,
- spookily,
- light,
- hesitatingly,
- quietly,
- respectful,
- playfully,
- watchful,
- yielding,
- shamefacedly,
- conscious,
- goosy,
- namby-pamby,
- aloof,
- subservient,
- averse,
- dread,
- ineffective,
- fetch,
- funky,
- blushing,
- impotent,
- abasement,
- docile,
- wimpish,
- excite,
- gangrene,
- soft,
- embarrassed,
- drag,
- dutiful,
- draw in,
- chickenhearted,
- Demurring,
- sissified,
- dismayed,
- vacillating,
- wavering,
- wearied,
- cowardliness,
- tame,
- unmanly,
- diffidently,
- poltroon,
- trigger-happy,
- Badgered,
- mild,
- uncertain,
- faltering,
- fearfully,
- trembling,
- unadventurous,
- feckless,
- Chicken-hearted,
- shame,
- quiet,
- reclusive,
- hesitating,
- timidly,
- Vitelline,
- scary,
- jumpy,
- frail,
- recalcitrant,
- discombobulated,
- bashfully,
- Funking,
- accommodating,
- nervously,
- panic-stricken,
- deceive,
- non-militant,
- suppressed,
- unsure,
- cowed,
- delicate,
- Startlish,
- manipulable,
- unaggressive,
- mortification,
- ashamed,
- withdrawn,
- broken,
- sheepishly,
- incompetent,
- silent,
- shadowy,
- dastardly,
- poltroonery,
- trepid,
- hesitantly,
- milquetoast,
- entice,
- uneasy,
- subdued,
- Shamefast,
- dismiss,
- meekly,
- weak,
- fearfulness,
- clumsily,
- pliable,
- squeamish,
- vague,
- effeminate,
- spiritless,
- reticently,
- sissy,
- repressed,
- Feeble-minded,
- cowering,
- restively,
- abashed,
- wary,
- ambivalent,
- bewilder,
- convince,
- swooning,
- Milk-livered,
- gentle,
- in a tizzy,
- careful,
- unable,
- cringing,
- skittish,
- daunted,
- sticking,
- timorous,
- shrinking,
- edgy,
- conformable,
- weak-willed,
- get,
- uncertainly,
- self-doubting,
- passive,
- halfhearted,
- removed,
- skittery,
- unassumingly,
- abet,
- having cold feet,
- lowly,
- uncomplaining,
- submissive,
- timorously,
- concern,
- tractable,
- resigned,
- confused,
- skittishly,
- elicit,
- unmanful,
- white-livered,
- induce,
- shamefaced,
- taciturn,
- adaptable,
- gawkily,
- tight-lipped,
- dim,
- awe,
- unresponsive,
- in fear,
- unconfident,
- ineptly,
- inarticulate,
- confess,
- fright,
- vacillate,
- prude,
- Jibbing,
- flexible,
- Dough-faced,
- skittishness,
- incertain,
- distant,
- manageable,
- loath,
- lacking courage,
- scrupling,
- cozen,
- observant,
- counsel,
- whimsically,
- chagrin,
- circumspect,
- fastidious,
- humiliation,
- acquiescent,
- reluctant,
- impel,
- detached,
- trepidant,
- restless,
- draw,
- shivery,
- feeble,
- deferential,
- unforthcoming,
- on edge,
- duteous,
- weakhearted,
- poor-spirited,
- uncomfortable,
- embarrassment,
- decoy,
- eremitic,
- unmanlike,
- wispy,
- dastard,
- guarded,
- inept,
- ill-defined,
- coax,
- shyly,
- pigeonhearted,
- coward,
- agreeable,
- exhausted,
- sheeplike,
- timidity,
- terror,
- obedient,
- yellow-bellied,
- unobtrusively,
- pliant,
- amenable,
- reticent.
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Adjective
shy, modest, reticent, tentative, hesitant, cowardly, Half-hearted, self-conscious, over-cautious, circumspect, restrained, sensitive, coy.
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Antonyms for Timid:
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adj.
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bold.
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shy
brave, confident, unabashed, extroverted, daring, courageous, unafraid, conceited, egotistical, fearless, able, loud, proud, calm.
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Other antonyms:
fresh, mettlesome, temerarious, intrepid, bright, sturdy, brilliant, hearty, game, unflinching, firm, unswerving, resolute, spunky, energetic, nervy, undeterred, clear, conspicuous, plucky, strong, determined, spirited, vigorous.
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