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timid
English
Etymology
From Middle French timide, from Latin timidus (“full of fear, fearful, timid”), from time? (“I fear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?m?d/
Adjective
timid (comparative timider, superlative timidest)
- Lacking in courage or confidence.
- Synonyms: fearful, timorous, shy; see also Thesaurus:cautious, Thesaurus:shy
- Antonyms: daredevil, dauntless, bellicose, reckless, aggressive
Derived terms
- timidly
- timidness
Related terms
- intimidate
- intimidation
- timidity
Translations
Further reading
- timid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- timid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- dimit
Ibaloi
Noun
timid
- (anatomy) chin
Ilocano
Noun
timid
- (anatomy) chin
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French timide and Latin timidus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?mid/
Adjective
timid m or n (feminine singular timid?, masculine plural timizi, feminine and neuter plural timide)
- timid, shy
Declension
Related terms
- timiditate
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pusillanimity
English
Etymology
pusillanim(ous) +? -ity, from Middle French pusillanimité, from the ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis, from pusillus (puny) + animus (spirit) + -ous. A translation of the Greek ?????????? (oligópsukhos, “faint-hearted”).
Noun
pusillanimity (countable and uncountable, plural pusillanimities)
- The quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential; pusillanimousness.
- 1685. Dr. Michael de Molinos: The Spiritual Guide which Disentangles the Soul, and Brings it by the Inward Way To The Getting of Perfect Contemplation and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace, CHAP. XVIII: [1].
- 132. And although thou often fallest, and seest thy Pusillanimity, and endeavour to get courage, and afflict not thy self; because what God doth not do in forty Years, he sometimes doth in an instant, with a particular Mystery, that we may live low and humble, and know that ‘tis the Work of his powerful Hand, to free us from Sins.
- their hectorings against an absent enemy, and their pusillanimity on his approach
- 1872, Henry James, "Guest's Confession" in The Atlantic Monthly October 1872.
- What I did through indolence and in some degree, I confess, through pusillanimity, I had a fancy to make it appear (by dint of much whistling, as it were, and easy thrusting of my hands into my pocket) that I did through a sort of generous condescension.
- 1685. Dr. Michael de Molinos: The Spiritual Guide which Disentangles the Soul, and Brings it by the Inward Way To The Getting of Perfect Contemplation and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace, CHAP. XVIII: [1].
Related terms
- pusillanimous
- pusillanimousness
- faint-heartedness
Translations
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