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Definition of Timid
Timid

Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.

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Bold, Courage, Danger, Easily, Fearful, Frightened, Meet, Not, Shy, Timorous, To, Wanting


Timid Quotations

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore

Timid Translations

timid in Danish is bange
timid in Dutch is benepen, beschroomd, bang
timid in German is befangen, furchtsam, furchtsam
timid in Italian is timoroso
timid in Latin is timidus
timid in Norwegian is sjenert


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