Definitions for timorous

timorous tim·or·ous

Spelling: [tim-er-uh s]
IPA: /ˈtɪm ər əs/

Timorous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in timorous (imoorstu).

Definitions for timorous

adjective

  1. full of fear; fearful:
  2. subject to fear; timid.
  3. characterized by or indicating fear:

Origin of timorous

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin timōrōsus (Latin timōr- (stem of timor) fear + -ōsus -ous)

Examples for timorous

Bless that straightforward, timorous, modest American skipper!

It rendered him timorous for a moment before that enigmatic, lighted door.

He was devoted to the Countess, and was aye wont to be timorous where she was concerned.

The CIA, despite its cowboy image, is in fact in many ways a timorous, risk-averse bureaucracy.

And she forced on the timorous Prue a quarter as her matriculation fee.

Alas, the sad truth is that the CIA, despite its Bourne Identity reputation, has become a timorous, risk-averse bureaucracy.

A timorous Singer is unhappy, like a Prodigal, who is miserably poor.

His mien was that of the skulking, timorous, famished vagabond.

Forget about the Second Amendment—the gun lobby, abetted by timorous Republicans, is trying to privatize law and order.

However, Lisa only shrugged her shoulders and smiled at finding him so timorous.

Word Value for timorous
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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