What is another word for timid?
Pronunciation:
[ tˈɪmɪd], [ tˈɪmɪd], [ t_ˈɪ_m_ɪ_d]
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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)
- other relevant words (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)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
- retiring,
- longanimous,
- unsociable,
- demure,
- scared stiff,
- aspen,
- traditionalist,
- unexpansive,
- Unaffable,
- vacillant,
- run scared,
- conservative,
- laid back,
- backward,
- faint-hearted,
- fearful,
- overmodest,
- uneager,
- nongregarious,
- sheepish,
- blushful,
- rightist,
- meek,
- shy,
- in awe,
- old line,
- holding to,
- unassertive,
- scared to death,
- unrestful,
- diffident,
- in rut,
- unneighborly,
- mousy,
- Mean-spirited,
- coy,
- Pithless,
- in a rut,
- not extreme,
- terror-stricken,
- unsocial,
- unassured,
- tentative,
- over-wrought,
- lacking confidence,
- modest,
- rabbity,
- die hard,
- non-gregarious,
- nerveless,
- over-modest,
- up set,
- forceless,
- bashful,
- easy going,
- irresolute,
- stuck up,
- rightwing,
- not forward,
- hesitant,
- right of center,
- uneffusive,
- easy-going,
- white bread,
- meanspirited,
- amoebalike,
- traditionalistic,
- panicky,
- undaring,
- nervous,
- tremulous,
- unresisting.
- 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.
n.
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- decide,
- Shilly-shally.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- pendulous.
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- awkward.
- feature,
- person,
- demureness,
- shyness,
- timidness,
- backwardness,
- coyness,
- modesty,
- restraint,
- character,
- sheepishness,
- reticence,
- attribute,
- apprehension,
- quality,
- bashfulness,
- diffidence,
- retiringness,
- temper,
- reserve,
- personality,
- insecurity,
- meekness,
- trait,
- timorousness.
- 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.
How to use "Timid" in context?
Most people would describe someone who is timid as someone who is very afraid to do or say anything that might inconvenience them. For example, a timid person may be very hesitant to speak up in class or in a group setting. They may also be very reluctant to try new things. A person who is timid may suffer from anxiety or other mental health problems. Although most people are probably timid at some point in their lives, there are ways to overcome this fear. One way is to learn how to control your emotions. Another is to learn how to deal with stress. Finally, keep in mind that it is ok to be a little shy.
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circumspect, cowardly, coy, hesitant, modest, restrained, reticent, self-conscious, sensitive, shy, tentative, Half-hearted, over-cautious.
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