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# timorous

«timorous» in Mova's school dictionary: **fearful and easily frightened, shy and nervous** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Timorous means fearful and easily frightened, shy and nervous. (old use, in fairy tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timorous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a traveller walks past a dangerous or spooky place with nervous steps

### examples

- He crept on with timorous steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timorous/#x1)
- The timorous mouse hid under the leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timorous/#x2)
- Do not be so timorous; the dog is friendly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timorous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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