timid

From Middle French timide, from Latin timidus (“full of fear, fearful, timid”), from timeo (“I fear”).

• IPA^(key): /tɪmɪd/

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timid (comparative timider, superlative timidest)

1. Lacking in courage or confidence.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎:

     When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.

   John's a very timid person. I'll doubt he'll be brave enough to face his brother.

• fearful
• timorous
• shy

• daredevil
• dauntless
• bellicose
• reckless
• aggressive

• timidly

• intimidate
• intimidation
• timidity
• timidness

• timid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• timid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• dimit

timid

1. (anatomy) chin

timid

1. (anatomy) chin

Borrowed from French timide and Latin timidus.

• IPA^(key): /tiˈmid/

timid m or n (feminine singular timidă, masculine plural timizi, feminine and neuter plural timide)

1. timid, shy

• timiditate