different between timid vs troubled

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)

1. 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

1. (anatomy) chin

Ilocano

Noun

timid

1. (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)

1. timid, shy

Declension

Related terms

• timiditate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??bl?d/

Adjective

troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)

1. anxious, worried, careworn.

   • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

Translations

Verb

troubled

1. simple past tense and past participle of trouble