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timorous

[ tim-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. full of fear; fearful:

    The noise made them timorous.

  2. subject to fear; timid.
  3. characterized by or indicating fear:

    a timorous whisper.



timorous

/ ˈɪəə /

adjective

  1. fearful or timid
  2. indicating fear or timidity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈپǰdzܲԱ, noun
  • ˈپǰdzܲ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • پo·dzܲ· adverb
  • پo·dzܲ·Ա noun
  • v·پo·dzܲ adjective
  • over·پo·dzܲ· adverb
  • over·پo·dzܲ·Ա noun
  • ܲ·پo·dzܲ adjective
  • un·پo·dzܲ· adverb
  • un·پo·dzܲ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of timorous1

1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin پōōܲ ( Latin پō- (stem of timor ) fear + -ōܲ -ous )
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of timorous1

C15: from Old French temoros, from Medieval Latin پōōܲ, from Latin timor fear, from پŧ to be afraid
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But even then, the right claimed that New Deal liberal traitors were subverting the fight against communism and that Dwight D. Eisenhower was too timorous to embark upon a real rollback strategy against communism.

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Is that what these legislators and “timorous adults” are doing?

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The court’s decision for the football coach should cause timorous adults, and the fragile young people they shape, to stop fueling today’s cancel culture and the demands for “safe spaces.”

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An outwardly gentle soul, but with a spine of steel, Fred was never too timorous to lay bare our view on public affairs, including public corruption and injustices.

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The first is the discovery by a timorous and eminently respectable architect of the nude body of a murdered man, neatly disposed in his bathtub, decorated with a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez.

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