Generally speaking, we Japanese are a little too timid in speaking foreign languages.
Source: tatoeba (21805)
Timid
//ˈtɪmɪd//
Synonyms for "timid" (163 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (49)
Related words (81)
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More general
1 entriesAntonyms
7 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
117 translations across 50 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- drojë adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- ndrojtur adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Arabic
1 entries- جَبَان adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Basque
1 entries- lotsati adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Belarusian
4 entries- бая́зны adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- баязлі́вы adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- нясме́лы adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- палахлі́вы adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Bulgarian
3 entries- боязли́в adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- плах adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- плашли́в adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Burmese
1 entries- ရှက် adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Catalan
1 entries- tímid adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 怯懦 adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- 羞怯 adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- 膽小 /胆小 adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- 膽怯 /胆怯 adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Czech
4 entries- bojácný adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- bázlivý adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- nesmělý adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- nesmělý adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Danish
1 entries- frygtsom adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Dutch
4 entries- bedeesd adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- schroomvallig adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- schuchter adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- timide adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Esperanto
1 entries- timema adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Estonian
3 entries- arg adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- kartlik adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- pelglik adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Finnish
4 entries- arka adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- pelokas adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- säikky adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- ujo adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
French
2 entries- craintif adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- timide adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Galician
1 entries- tímido adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
German
4 entries- befangen adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- furchtsam adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- kleinmütig adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- kopfscheu adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Greek
1 entries- αθάρρευτος adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Hungarian
1 entries- félénk adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Ido
1 entries- timida adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Ingrian
2 entries- armolliin adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- ujo adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Irish
1 entries- faiteach adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Italian
3 entries- impaurito adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- pavido adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- timido adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Japanese
1 entries- 憶病 adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Khmer
4 entries- ត្រុកៗ adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- ទុយមុយ adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- ប្រុនៗ adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- មុយៗ adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Korean
1 entries- 소심(小心)하다 adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Ladino
2 entries- arrezistado adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- timido adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Latin
3 entries- meticulosus adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- pavidus adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- timidus adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Latvian
2 entries- bikls adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- kautrīgs adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Louisiana Creole
1 entries- timid adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Macedonian
1 entries- плашлив adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Manx
1 entries- faitagh adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Māori
4 entries- kōpipiri adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- kōpī adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- kōpīpī adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- tikumu adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Occitan
1 entries- timid adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یوركسز adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Persian
1 entries- ترسو adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- bleed (nds) adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- feij adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Polish
3 entries- bojaźliwy adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- nieśmiały adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- płochliwy adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Portuguese
2 entries- acanhado adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- tímido adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Romanian
1 entries- timid adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Russian
4 entries- боязли́вый adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- засте́нчивый adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- несме́лый adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- пугли́вый adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- diùid adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- gealtach adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- sgàthach adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- snebivljiv adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Slovak
2 entries- bojazlivý adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- nesmelý adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Spanish
1 entries- tímido adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Swedish
3 entries- blyg adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- försagd adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- timid adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Turkish
1 entries- ürkek adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Ukrainian
4 entries- боязки́й adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- несмі́ливий adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- несмі́лий adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
- несміли́вий adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rụt rè adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Yiddish
1 entries- שרעקעוודיק adj (lacking in courage or confidence)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
New hires who just joined the company do everything in this timid manner.
Source: tatoeba (22415)
The timid man trembled with fear.
Source: tatoeba (25563)
Bob is very timid and blushes when chatting with girls.
Source: tatoeba (33213)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.