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timid 音标拼音: [t'ɪmɪd] a. 胆小的,羞怯的 胆小的,羞怯的 timid adj 1: showing fear and lack of confidence [ant: {bold}] 2: lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man" [synonym: {diffident}, {shy}, {timid}, {unsure}] [ant: {confident}] 3: lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" [synonym: {faint}, {fainthearted}, {timid}, {faint-hearted}] n 1: people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid" [synonym: {timid}, {cautious}] [ant: {brave}] Timid \Tim"id\, a. [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.] Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. [1913 Webster] Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. --Thomson. [1913 Webster] Syn: Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint-hearted; shrinking; retiring. [1913 Webster] -- {Tim"id*ly}, adv. -- {Tim"id*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] 88 Moby Thesaurus words for "timid": afraid, apprehensive, bashful, cautious, chicken, chickenhearted, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, coy, craven, daunted, demure, demurring, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted, faltering, fearful, fearing, fearsome, frightened, funking, funky, goosy, gutless, henhearted, hesitant, hesitating, humble, in fear, inarticulate, intimidated, jibbing, jumpy, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, modest, mousy, nervous, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, pusillanimous, rabbity, retiring, scared, scary, scrupling, self-conscious, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shilly-shallying, shivery, shrinking, shy, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, soft, stammering, startlish, sticking, stickling, straining, tentative, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unassertive, unassured, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow
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