Usually means: Showing fear or lack of confidence.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. timorous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. timorous: Merriam-Webster
  3. timorous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. timorous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. timorous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Timorous, timorous: Wordnik
  7. timorous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. timorous: Wiktionary
  9. timorous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. timorous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. timorous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. timorous: Dictionary.com
  13. timorous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Timorous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. timorous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. timorous: Rhymezone
  17. Timorous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. timorous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. timorous: FreeDictionary.org
  20. timorous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. timorous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. timorous: Vocabulary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. timorous: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. timorous: A Word A Day
  2. timorous: Wordcraft Dictionary

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adjective:  Fearful; afraid; timid.

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