timorous
/TIM-er-us/adjectiveshowing nervousness or a lack of courage
“A timorous knock barely sounded on the door.”
- Synonyms
- timid, fearful, apprehensive
- Antonyms
- bold, intrepid
- Memory hook
- timor (fear): fear in the fingertips.
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