0 shy and nervous; without much confidence; easily frightened: --
My dog is a little timid - especially around other dogs.
Kieran is a timid child.
1 easily frightened; not brave or confident: --
This produced a timid women's movement that limited its demands to better training for girls and female teachers.
For, without a clearly defined superior authority, the executive officers tended towards exorbitance or timid inactivity or an erratic veering between the two.
Timid tax reforms were attempted, but until more substantive reforms were implemented between 2002 and 2004 these failed to alter the overall tax structure.
In their view, the police power was not "timid," but "narrow" in its application.
He or she may go from being shy to being outgoing, from feminine to masculine, from timid to aggressive.
The 22% of the sample classified as shy/timid appeared very similar in their behavior.
However, the earlier longitudinal data available on them permitted us to parse this shy/timid group into two different subgroups.
We find that those with hardworking, even-tempered and aggressive personalities are more likely to vote than those with, respectively, lazy, moody and timid personalities.
