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timid 音標拼音: [t'ɪmɪd] a. 膽小的,羞怯的 膽小的,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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