adj. Function: adjective
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Synonyms: SHY 1, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, modest, rabbity, retiring, unassertive, unassured
Related Words: humble; shrinking
Antonyms: bold
2 marked by or exhibiting a lack of boldness, courage, or determination FF1C; was too timid to ski FF1E;
Synonyms: timorous, ||timorsome, undaring
Related Words: 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
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Synonyms: VACILLATING 2, faltering, halting, hesitant, irresolute, shilly-shallying, tentative, uncertain, vacillatory, wiggle-waggle