adj. shy, retiring, modest, coy, bashful, diffident, timorous, fearful, apprehensive, mousy, scared, frightened, nervous, cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, Colloq chicken-hearted, yellow, yellow-bellied, chicken, chicken-livered, lily-livered, gutless I knew this strapping marine when he was a timid little boy
TIMID
Meaning of TIMID in English
Oxford thesaurus English vocab. Английский словарь Оксфорд тезаурус. 2012