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# timidly

«timidly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a shy, nervous, frightened way, without confidence** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Timidly means in a shy, nervous, frightened way, without confidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A story word for a character who is shy or scared: «she asked timidly». In Alice, Alice often speaks timidly to strange creatures; in The Wind in the Willows Mole is timid at first in the Wild Wood. It helps the reader feel the character's nervousness.

### examples

- The new girl timidly raised her hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#x1)
- «May I come in?» asked Mole timidly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#x2)
- The deer timidly stepped out of the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#x3)
- Alice timidly began to explain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#x4)
- He knocked timidly on the head teacher's door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#x5)
- The puppy timidly sniffed my hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#x6)
- “What was that?” she asked timidly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/#x7)

### note

From «timid» + «-ly». Noun: timidity. Opposite: boldly, confidently.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «timidly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timidly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.