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Timid or readily made apprehensive, especially when facing uncertainty or challenge.
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- timorous voice
- timorous approach
- timorous objection
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A timorous voice asked whether the gate was safe to open.
Her first objection was timorous, but the second was firm.
He made a timorous approach to the unfamiliar group.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more timorous; superlative most timorous. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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