• IPA: /ˈtɪməɹəs/

timorous

1. fearful; afraid; timid

   • Wee sleekit, cowrin', tim'rous beastie,

     Oh, what a panic's in thy breastie!

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:

     He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment with a glance also of entreaty for he seemed to glean in a kind of a way that it wasn't all exactly.

• (fearful) fearful, shy, timid

• (fearful) daredevil, dauntless, reckless

• timorsome

• French: timoré, timorée, craintif, craintive
• German: scheu, ängstlich
• Italian: timido
• Russian: боязливый
• Spanish: tímido, espantadizo, timorato