adjective
1.
Synonyms: shy 1, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, modest, rabbity, retiring, unassertive, unassured
Related Word: humble; shrinking
Antonyms: bold
2.
marked by or exhibiting a lack of boldness, courage, or determination
was too timid to ski
Synonyms: timorous, ||timorsome, undaring
Related Word: gentle, mild, milk-toast, milky; cautious, chary, wary; jumpy, nervous, skittish; afraid, apprehensive, fainthearted, fearful; chicken, chickenhearted, henhearted, mouselike, mousy, pigeonhearted; cowardly, yellow; funky, panicky
Contrasted words: audacious, brave, courageous, daring, doughty, fearless, intrepid, lionhearted, unafraid, valiant, valorous
Antonyms: bold
3.
Synonyms: vacillating 2, faltering, halting, hesitant, irresolute, shilly-shallying, tentative, uncertain, vacillatory, wiggle-waggle