Timorous
['tɪm(ə)rəs] or ['tɪmərəs]
Definition
(a.) Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.
(a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.
Typist: Winfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fearful, TIMID.
Edited by Lilian
Examples
- A solemn silence; Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady serious, the fat gentleman captious, and Mr. Miller timorous. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Widows, gentlemen, are not usually timorous, as my uncle used to say. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Even ignorant infancy appeared with timorous shrieks and convulsions to acknowledge the presence of unseen powers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I know few things more affecting than that timorous debasement and self-humiliation of a woman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Lilian