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.
  •all (adjective)
  • timid.
  •backward (adjective)
  • in-disposed,
  • more uneager,
  • un-willing,
  • in disposed,
  • dis-inclined,
  • un willing,
  • un-eager,
  • re served,
  • most uneager,
  • re-served,
  • dis inclined,
  • un eager.
  •bashful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •conservative (adjective)
  • 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.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • gutless,
  • weak-kneed,
  • recreant,
  • spineless,
  • craven,
  • softer,
  • yellow,
  • chicken.
  •coy (adjective)
  • prudish,
  • kittenish,
  • more rabbity,
  • most rabbity.
  •demure (adjective)
  • more unassured,
  • de-mure,
  • strait laced,
  • un-assuming,
  • un assuming,
  • unassuming,
  • un assured,
  • un-assured,
  • de mure,
  • most unassured.
  •diffident (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • in a dither,
  • aflutter,
  • pusillanimous,
  • shaky,
  • goose-bumpy,
  • afraid.
  •fearsome (adjective)
  • fearsome.
  •frightened (adjective)
  • agitated,
  • startled,
  • unnerved,
  • apprehensive,
  • rattled,
  • horrified,
  • jittery,
  • petrified,
  • Harrowed,
  • chicken-livered,
  • scared,
  • paralyzed,
  • frightened,
  • alarmed,
  • terrified,
  • lily-livered,
  • intimidated,
  • anxious.
  •gingerly (adjective)
  • gingerly.
  •henpecked (adjective)
  • under one's thumb,
  • led by the nose,
  • wife-ridden,
  • in fear of one's wife,
  • under thumb,
  • subjected to nagging.
  •hesitant (adjective)
  • de-laying,
  • in decisive,
  • un-predictable,
  • de laying,
  • Half-hearted,
  • most faltering,
  • un predictable,
  • more dawdling,
  • in-decisive,
  • more faltering,
  • doubting,
  • most dawdling.
  •humble (adjective)
  • unpretentious,
  • reverential,
  • supplicatory,
  • unambitious.
  •irresolute (adjective)
  • in firm,
  • wimpy,
  • hot-and-cold,
  • wishy-washy,
  • on-the-fence,
  • hot and cold.
  •lily-livered (adjective)
  • lily livered,
  • lilylivered.
  •mean-spirited (adjective)
  • mean spirited.
  •meek (adjective)
  • 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.
  •modest (adjective)
  • undemonstrative,
  • unpretending,
  • unobtrusive,
  • unselfish,
  • selfless,
  • unpresuming,
  • Unboastful,
  • reserved.
  •mousy (adjective)
  • in effectual,
  • in determinate,
  • in-effectual.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •recreant (adjective)
  • falsehearted.
  •retiring (adjective)
  • 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.
  •self-effacing (adjective)
  • self effacing,
  • selfeffacing.
  •sheepish (adjective)
  • un comfortable,
  • more mortified,
  • most mortified,
  • more chagrined,
  • un-comfortable,
  • most chagrined.
  •shrinking (adjective)
  • more declining,
  • most declining.
  •spineless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •timid (adjective)
  • more unnerved,
  • more bullied,
  • most browbeaten,
  • un nerved,
  • most bullied,
  • more badgered,
  • most unnerved,
  • un-nerved,
  • more browbeaten,
  • most badgered.
  •tremulous (adjective)
  • more aspen,
  • most aspen,
  • more palpitating,
  • more quavering,
  • ex-cited,
  • most quavering,
  • most palpitating,
  • ex cited.
  •unmanly (adjective)
  • un-manliest,
  • un manliest,
  • un-manlier,
  • un manlier,
  • un-manly,
  • un manly.
  •unsociable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •vacillant (adjective)
  • shillyshally.
  •weak-willed (adjective)
  • weak willed,
  • weakwilled.

• n.

  •
  • insecure,
  • ill at ease,
  • lost,
  • unsure of yourself.
  •
  • decide,
  • Shilly-shally.
  •cautious (noun)
  • cautious.
  •cowardly (noun)
  • cowardly.
  •faint (noun)
  • faint.
  •fainthearted (noun)
  • fainthearted.
  •mousey (noun)
  • mousey.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • self-effacing,
  • inferiority complex,
  • introverted,
  • henpecked,
  • Vacillatory,
  • inhibited.
  •
  • modestly,
  • halting,
  • inferior,
  • awkwardly,
  • unstable,
  • indecisive.
  •
  • pendulous.
  •
  • awkward.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Timid:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    cautious, bashful.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    fearful, prudent, careful, reluctant, moderate, humble, wary, weak, slight, afraid, delicate, feeble, conservative.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    shy, modest, reticent, tentative, hesitant, cowardly, Half-hearted, self-conscious, over-cautious, circumspect, restrained, sensitive, coy.

Antonyms for Timid:

• adj.

  • all
    bold.
  • shy
    brave, confident, unabashed, extroverted, daring, courageous, unafraid, conceited, egotistical, fearless, able, loud, proud, calm.
  • 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.