timidly

Also found in: Thesaurus, Idioms.

tim·id

(tĭm′ĭd)

adj. tim·id·er, tim·id·est

1. Lacking self-confidence; shy.

2. Fearful and hesitant: problems that call for bold, not timid, responses.

[Latin timidus, from timēre, to fear.]

ti·mid′i·ty, tim′id·ness n.

tim′id·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Adv.

timidly - in a shy or timid or bashful manner; "he smiled shyly"

bashfully, shyly

Translations

بِخَوْفٍ ، بِجُبْنٍ

bázlivěplaše

frygtsomt

Ängstlichkeit

timidement

feimnislega; af hugleysi

timidamente

placho

plašno

çekingen bir şekildeutana sıkıla

羞怯地胆小的

timidly

[ˈtɪmɪdlɪ] ADV → tímidamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

timidly

[ˈtɪmɪdli] adv → timidement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

timidly

adv say, ask → zaghaft; enter, approach → schüchtern, ängstlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

timidly

[ˈtɪmɪdlɪ] adv → timidamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

timid

(ˈtimid) adjective

easily frightened; nervous; shy. A mouse is a timid creature.

ˈtimidly adverb

tiˈmidity noun

ˈtimidness noun

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

`Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, `why your cat grins like that?'

`Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.

View in context

Pollyanna advanced a little timidly. Now that the time had come, she felt unwontedly shy.

Then she heard the minister's wife suggest timidly that they, as a society, might perhaps assume his support and education instead of sending quite so much money this year to the little boys in far-away India.

View in context

"I don't look down on it at all," said Konstantin Levin timidly. "I don't even dispute it."

View in context

Pierre looked at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her enemies, he tried to continue reading.

View in context

We have heard, Rodya, that Pyotr Petrovitch was so kind as to visit you today," Pulcheria Alexandrovna added somewhat timidly.

View in context

"I think it would be nice," said Cecily timidly, "and none of us have any experience of being editors, any more than Bev, so that wouldn't matter."

View in context

Even when their eyes had met, and her sister had approached the bed, Louisa lay for minutes looking at her in silence, and suffering her timidly to hold her passive hand, before she asked:

View in context

"Brother," said Jehan timidly, "I am come to see you."

View in context

And one big black rat, who seemed to want to say something to the Doctor, now crept forward timidly along the rail, watching the dog out of the corner of his eye.

View in context

So the soldier was summoned and entered the Throne Room timidly, for while Oz was alive he never was allowed to come farther than the door.