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Timid. Hudibras.

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,
TIMIDOUS
Timid. Hudibras.
HUDIBRASTIC
Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
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.