Word Meanings - COY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

quietus quiet, p. p. of quiescere to rest, quie rest; prob. akin to 1. Quiet; still. Chaucer. 2. Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. Coy,

Additional info about word: COY

quietus quiet, p. p. of quiescere to rest, quie rest; prob. akin to 1. Quiet; still. Chaucer. 2. Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. Coy, and difficult to win. Cowper. Coy and furtive graces. W. Irving. Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. Goldsmith. 3. Soft; gentle; hesitating. Enforced hate, Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee. Shak. Syn. -- Shy; shriking; reserved; modest; bashful; backward; distant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COY)

• Timid
• Fearful
• pusillanimous
• shy
• diffident
• coy
• timorous
• afraid
• cowerly
• fainthearted
• inadventurous

Related words: (words related to COY)

• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• PUSILLANIMOUSLY
  With pusillanimity.
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• TIMID
  Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
• FEARFULLY
  In a fearful manner.
• FEARFUL
  1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
• DIFFIDENT
  dif- = dis + fidere to trust; akin to fides faith. See Faith, and cf. 1. Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth. 2. Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers;
• TIMOROUS
  1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. Shak. 2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. "The timorous apostasy of chuchmen." Milman. -- Tim"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Tim"or*ous*ness, n.
• TIMIDOUS
  Timid. Hudibras.
• DIFFIDENTLY
  In a diffident manner. To stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array. Hobbes.
• AFRAID
  Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton. Note: This word expresses a less degree of fear than terrified or frightened. It is followed by of before the object of fear, or by the infinitive,
• FAINTHEARTED; FAINT-HEARTED
  Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n.
• PUSILLANIMOUS
  + animus the 1. Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince. 2. Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• INTIMIDATORY
  Tending or serving to intimidate.
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
• INTIMIDATION
  The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. Paley.
• LACTIMIDE
  A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.