TIMID
Dictionary entry overview: What does timid mean?
• TIMID (noun)
The noun TIMID has 1 sense:
1. people who are fearful and cautious
Familiarity information: TIMID used as a noun is very rare.
• TIMID (adjective)
The adjective TIMID has 3 senses:
1. showing fear and lack of confidence
2. lacking self-confidence
3. lacking conviction or boldness or courage
Familiarity information: TIMID used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• TIMID (noun)
Meaning:
People who are fearful and cautious
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
cautious; timid
Context example:
whitewater rafting is not for the timid
Hypernyms ("timid" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Antonym:
brave (people who are brave)
• TIMID (adjective)
Meaning:
Showing fear and lack of confidence
Similar:
shy (easily startled or frightened)
mousey; mousy (quiet and timid and ineffectual)
intimidated (made timid or fearful as by threats)
fearful; timorous; trepid (timid by nature or revealing timidity)
coy (modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures)
bashful (self-consciously timid)
Also:
backward ((used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature)
unassertive (inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence)
afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)
unadventurous (lacking in boldness)
cowardly; fearful (lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted)
Attribute:
timidity; timorousness (fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities)
Antonym:
bold (fearless and daring)
Meaning:
Lacking self-confidence
Synonyms:
shy; diffident; timid; unsure
Context examples:
stood in the doorway diffident and abashed / problems that call for bold not timid responses / a very unsure young man
Similar:
unconfident (lacking or marked by a lack of confidence)
Meaning:
Lacking conviction or boldness or courage
Synonyms:
fainthearted; faint-hearted; timid; faint
Context example:
faint heart ne'er won fair lady
Similar:
cowardly; fearful (lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted)
