timorous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɪməɹəs/|/ˈtɪmɹəs/    美 /ˈtɪməɹəs/|/ˈtɪmɹəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.
    — But thou now O temerous ⁊ weake ſely ſhepe, thynke yt ſufficient for thee, onely to walke after me, which am thy ſhepehearde ⁊ gouernor: […]
  2. Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened. archaic
    — He [the Devil] marketh well […] mennes complexions within thẽ [them], health, or ſicknes, good humours or badde, by which they be light hearted or lumpiſh, ſtrong hearted, or faynt & fieble of ſpirite, bolde and hardy, or timorous and fearefull of courage.
  3. Fastidious in dressing. UK,dialectal
  4. Fired with intense feeling; passionate. UK,dialectal
  5. Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome. UK,dialectal
  6. Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible. obsolete
    — Well, having past halfe way downewards, wee came to the most scurrile and timorous Discent of the whole passage, where with much difficuty, I set safe the foure Germanes in our narrow Rode hewen out of the craggy Hill; […]
  7. Humble, modest; also, showing reverence; respectful, reverent, reverential. obsolete

词形变化

more timorous comparative most timorous superlative timerous alternative timourous alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
overtimorous timorously timorousness timorous schizotypal
相关词
timorsome

词源

From Late Middle English timorous (“(adjective) fearful, frightened; causing fear, dreadful, terrible; deferential, modest; (noun) timid people collectively”), borrowed from Old French temoros, temorous, from Medieval Latin timōrōsus, from timōr- (the stem of Latin timor (“dread, fear”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’). Timor is derived from timeō (“to be afraid of, fear”) (further origin uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). Doublet of timoroso.
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