timorous

English

Alternative forms

• timourous (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French temoros, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  timorosus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin timor fear, from timeō to be afraid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪməɹəs/

Adjective

timorous (comparative more timorous, superlative most timorous)

1. fearful; afraid; timid
   • Robert Burns

     Wee sleekit, cowrin', tim'rous beastie,

     Oh, what a panic's in thy breastie!

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment with a glance also of entreaty for he seemed to glean in a kind of a way that it wasn't all exactly.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:

     The suspect was a man of forty, with a grey, timorous face, dressed only in a ragged longyi kilted to the knee, beneath which his lank, curved shins were specked with tick-bites.

Synonyms

• (fearful): fearful, shy, timid

Antonyms

• (fearful): daredevil, dauntless, reckless

Related terms

• timorsome

Translations

fearful, timid

• Armenian: երկչոտ (hy) (erkčʻot)
• Dutch: angstig (nl), schuw (nl), verlegen (nl),
• French: timoré (fr) m, timorée (fr) f, craintif (fr) m, craintive (fr) f
• German: scheu (de), ängstlich (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: timido (it)
• Russian: боязливый (ru) (bojazlivyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: plašljiv (sh), preplašen (sh)
• Spanish: tímido (es), espantadizo, timorato (es)

Anagrams

• sumotori