Synonyms for Timorous:

• adj.

  •afraid (adjective)
  • distressed,
  • trembling,
  • upset,
  • cowed,
  • blanched,
  • frightened,
  • horrified,
  • aroused,
  • rattled,
  • daunted,
  • dismayed,
  • abashed,
  • suspicious,
  • scared,
  • alarmed,
  • intimidated,
  • perturbed,
  • aghast,
  • startled,
  • anxious,
  • panic-stricken,
  • petrified,
  • timorous,
  • worried,
  • discouraged,
  • terrified,
  • disturbed,
  • disheartened,
  • have cold feet,
  • perplexed,
  • frozen,
  • shocked,
  • spooked,
  • stunned.
  •all (adjective)
  • trepid.
  •bashful (adjective)
  • blushing,
  • coy,
  • modest,
  • reticent,
  • chary,
  • constrained,
  • confused,
  • silent,
  • Verecund,
  • self-effacing,
  • self-conscious,
  • Recoiling,
  • shamefaced,
  • embarrassed,
  • demure,
  • backward,
  • reserved.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • recreant,
  • paper tiger,
  • dastardly,
  • caitiff,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • softer,
  • having the willies,
  • cowering,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • afraid,
  • running scared,
  • pigeonhearted,
  • weak-kneed,
  • base,
  • Cowhearted,
  • weak,
  • jittery,
  • no guts,
  • worthless,
  • lacking courage.
  •craven (adjective)
  • Mean-spirited.
  •diffident (adjective)
  • insecure,
  • Blenching,
  • unassuming,
  • dubious,
  • unsure,
  • doubtful,
  • unobtrusive,
  • reluctant,
  • Unpoised,
  • Flinching,
  • distrustful.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • agitated,
  • nerveless,
  • shaky,
  • solicitous,
  • chickenhearted,
  • disquieted,
  • discomposed,
  • quivery,
  • goose-bumpy,
  • uneasy,
  • tense,
  • in a dither,
  • unmanly,
  • phobic,
  • nervy,
  • aflutter,
  • skittish.
  •fearsome (adjective)
  • fearsome.
  •humble (adjective)
  • obliging,
  • subservient,
  • mild,
  • ordinary,
  • unostentatious,
  • reverential,
  • polite,
  • deferential,
  • manageable,
  • quiet,
  • obsequious,
  • sedate,
  • supplicatory,
  • respectful,
  • servile,
  • tractable,
  • unpretentious,
  • courteous,
  • submissive,
  • soft-spoken,
  • content,
  • lowly,
  • simple,
  • unambitious,
  • docile,
  • gentle,
  • standoffish,
  • biddable.
  •jumpy (adjective)
  • fidgety,
  • excitable,
  • sensitive,
  • high-strung,
  • excited,
  • frisky,
  • on edge,
  • restless.
  •mousy (adjective)
  • indeterminate,
  • dull,
  • colorless,
  • plain,
  • ineffectual,
  • pale.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • more nervous,
  • up tight,
  • most flustered,
  • more flustered,
  • un strung,
  • unstrung,
  • most ruffled,
  • more ruffled,
  • un-strung,
  • up-tight,
  • taut.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • retiring,
  • on pins and needles,
  • over-modest,
  • diffident,
  • mousy,
  • run scared,
  • unexpansive,
  • up set,
  • nongregarious,
  • in awe,
  • Unaffable,
  • sheepish,
  • blushful,
  • unassured,
  • scared stiff,
  • jumpy,
  • fearful,
  • terror-stricken,
  • withdrawn,
  • unrestful,
  • faint-hearted,
  • non-gregarious,
  • Uncompanionable,
  • panicky,
  • rabbity,
  • bashful,
  • scared to death,
  • craven,
  • not forward,
  • humble,
  • aspen,
  • tremulous,
  • over-wrought,
  • meanspirited,
  • wussy,
  • overmodest,
  • Poltroonish,
  • unassertive,
  • nervous,
  • uncurious,
  • wimpish,
  • wimpy,
  • timid.
  •recreant (adjective)
  • falsehearted.
  •retiring (adjective)
  • more unexpansive,
  • most unexpansive,
  • un-affable,
  • more nongregarious,
  • most withdrawing,
  • recessive,
  • re-tiring,
  • non gregarious,
  • un-expansive,
  • un-sociable,
  • with drawing,
  • un expansive,
  • more unaffable,
  • re tiring,
  • most nongregarious,
  • un affable,
  • more reclusive,
  • more withdrawing,
  • re-strained,
  • with-drawing,
  • re strained,
  • most unaffable.
  •sheepish (adjective)
  • most chagrined,
  • more mortified,
  • more chagrined,
  • un-comfortable,
  • most mortified,
  • un comfortable.
  •timid (adjective)
  • more milquetoast,
  • more badgered,
  • unnerved,
  • most badgered,
  • having cold feet,
  • more unnerved,
  • un-nerved,
  • most browbeaten,
  • un nerved,
  • most bullied,
  • most milquetoast,
  • more bullied,
  • more browbeaten,
  • most unnerved.
  •tremulous (adjective)
  • more quavering,
  • more palpitating,
  • more aspen,
  • most quavering,
  • most aspen,
  • most palpitating.
  •weak (adjective)
  • weakest,
  • laid back,
  • Fluctuant,
  • in firm.
  •withdrawn (adjective)
  • most retreated,
  • un-demonstrative,
  • un-forthcoming,
  • in-different,
  • in-curious,
  • most uncurious,
  • re tired,
  • in different,
  • un curious,
  • more retreated,
  • more unforthcoming,
  • unforthcoming,
  • un-companionable,
  • un demonstrative,
  • dis-interested,
  • re treated,
  • un companionable,
  • dis interested,
  • un interested,
  • in curious,
  • re-mote,
  • un concerned,
  • un-curious,
  • un-interested,
  • more uncompanionable,
  • un-concerned,
  • most uncompanionable,
  • more uncurious,
  • with-drawn,
  • re-treated,
  • most unforthcoming,
  • un forthcoming,
  • with drawn,
  • un-communicative.

• n.

  •
  • feeble,
  • spineless,
  • afraid/scared of your own shadow,
  • chicken,
  • yellow.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • feeling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • chinless,
  • pusillanimous,
  • gutless,
  • lily-livered.
  •
  • cowardly,
  • effete.
  •abject
  • poor-spirited.
  •Other relevant words:
  • shy.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • under control,
  • convince,
  • eremitic,
  • dainty,
  • sissified,
  • terrible,
  • awkward,
  • unwilling,
  • fetch,
  • gingerly,
  • induce,
  • Milk-livered,
  • fainthearted,
  • delicate,
  • dastard,
  • soft,
  • spiritless,
  • impel,
  • in fear,
  • irresolute,
  • shivery,
  • confess,
  • fear,
  • ineffective,
  • draw,
  • impotent,
  • dreaded,
  • uncomfortable,
  • undaring,
  • desperate,
  • draw in,
  • inept,
  • jitteriness,
  • subdued,
  • guarded,
  • hesitant,
  • poltroon,
  • Effet,
  • bewilder,
  • timidity,
  • Fearing,
  • skittery,
  • horrendous,
  • skittishness,
  • timorousness,
  • suppressed,
  • edgy,
  • coward,
  • trigger-happy,
  • distant,
  • frightening,
  • decoy,
  • reclusive,
  • aloof,
  • fastidious,
  • shrinking,
  • quivering,
  • meek,
  • feckless,
  • tentative,
  • changeable,
  • sissy,
  • watchful,
  • poltroonery,
  • excite,
  • taciturn,
  • Vitelline,
  • horrific,
  • cautious,
  • uncourageous,
  • unmanned,
  • jumpiness,
  • shuddering,
  • Funking,
  • corrupt,
  • coax,
  • freakish,
  • trepidant,
  • cowardliness,
  • detached,
  • squeamish,
  • abet,
  • tame,
  • deceive,
  • under thumb,
  • conscious,
  • white-livered,
  • unpresuming,
  • goosy,
  • counsel,
  • incompetent,
  • restive,
  • recalcitrant,
  • effeminate,
  • bad,
  • get,
  • diffidence,
  • removed,
  • compliant,
  • wet,
  • circumspect,
  • wishy-washy,
  • foolish,
  • nervousness,
  • timidness,
  • shivering,
  • fickle,
  • withdrawing,
  • unconfident,
  • drag,
  • introverted,
  • awful,
  • unsociable,
  • chicken-livered,
  • frightful,
  • weakhearted,
  • dire,
  • court,
  • quailing,
  • extreme,
  • apprehensive,
  • leery,
  • careful,
  • elicit,
  • faint,
  • Startlish,
  • monstrous,
  • mousey,
  • affected,
  • cozen,
  • unsocial,
  • scary,
  • evasive,
  • dreadful,
  • alarming,
  • canny,
  • entice,
  • restiveness,
  • stammering,
  • pliant,
  • cowardice,
  • funky,
  • atrocious,
  • Shamefast,
  • wary,
  • inarticulate,
  • encourage,
  • namby-pamby.

Antonyms for Timorous:

• adj.

  • afraid
    cool, unafraid, fearless, confident, intrepid, composed, heroic, courageous, valiant, undaunted, brave.
  • bashful
    unabashed, unshy.
  • cowardly
    daring, Unfearful, dauntless.
  • craven
    strong.
  • fearful
    Inapprehensive.
  • humble
    conceited, assertive, proud, insolent, boasting, egotistical, showy, pretentious.
  • jumpy
    calm, easy-going, collected, laid-back.
  • mousy
    beautiful, fixed-up, extroverted, fancy.
  • timorous
    bold, forthcoming, brazen.
  • Other antonyms:
    mettlesome, unswerving, self-confident, spirited, resolute, game, assured, undeterred, determined, unflinching, self-assured, firm, plucky, spunky, lionhearted.