Definition of timid

"timid" in the noun sense

1. timid, cautious

people who are fearful and cautious

"whitewater rafting is not for the timid"

"timid" in the adjective sense

1. timid

showing fear and lack of confidence

2. diffident, shy, timid, unsure

lacking self-confidence

"stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"

"problems that call for bold not timid responses"

"a very unsure young man"

3. faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted

lacking conviction or boldness or courage

"faint heart ne'er won fair lady"

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Quotations for timid

Women do not fancy timid men. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

As well the noble savage of the field
Might tamely couple with the fearful ewe;
Tigers might engender with the timid deer;
Wild, muddy boars defile the cleanly ermine,
Or vultures sort with doves; as I with thee. [ Lee ]

Brave as lions in peace, timid as deer in war.

As timid violets lade the ambient air
With their heart's richest fragrance, unaware
The fragrance whispers that the flower is there. [ Anna Katharine Green ]

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. [ Massillon ]

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Those who appear cold, but are only timid, as soon as they dare to love, adore. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived. [ Mme. Roland ]

At a ball, men are the timid sex, and also the feebler sex; for they are always the first to be fatigued. [ A. Karr ]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. [ Richter ]

As a man's yes and no, so his character. A prompt yes or no marks the firm, the quick, the decided character; and a slow, the cautious or timid. [ Lavater ]

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. [ Hazlitt ]

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]

timid in Scrabble®

The word timid is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters timid:

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The 108 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In timid

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timid in Words With Friends™

The word timid is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters timid:

MIDI
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Words within the letters of timid

2 letter words in timid (3 words)

3 letter words in timid (2 words)

4 letter words in timid (1 word)

5 letter words in timid (1 word)

Words containing the sequence timid

Words that start with timid (6 words)

Words that end with timid (1 word)

Word Growth involving timid

Shorter words in timid

id mid

mi mid

Longer words containing timid

intimidate intimidated unintimidated

intimidate intimidates

intimidating intimidatingly

intimidating nonintimidating

intimidation intimidations

intimidator intimidators

intimidator intimidatory

timider

timidest

timidity intimidity

timidly

timidness