timid
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- n people who are fearful and cautious
whitewater rafting is not for the timid - a showing fear and lack of confidence
- a lacking self-confidence
problems that call for bold not timid responses - s lacking conviction or boldness or courage
- But the new network shows of fall 2002 were a creatively timid mass of remakes, bland family comedies and derivative cop dramas.
- The posters tended to be timid, emphasizing that communism was a desirable and effective form of government, but that it needed to be changed in just a few regards.
- But given the scale of the problem, these measures are timid and ineffective, and the city has rejected a full-scale day without a car program such as the one used in Mexico City.