timorous

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.
2. adjective Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.
3. adjective Fastidious in dressing. Fired with intense feeling; passionate. Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome.
4. adjective Fastidious in dressing.
5. adjective Fired with intense feeling; passionate.
6. adjective Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome.
7. adjective Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible. Humble, modest; also, showing reverence; respectful, reverent, reverential.
8. adjective Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible.

Similar words

trepid timid fearful beastie timerous timourous timidous frightful timorsome timidsome

Often followed by

and of in to as man or about nature

Word family

timorously timorousness timorousnesses