timorous
English
Alternative forms
- timourous (obsolete)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French temoros, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin timorosus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin timor fear, from timeō to be afraid.
Pronunciation
Adjective
timorous (comparative more timorous, superlative most timorous)
- 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.
- Robert Burns
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fearful, timid
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