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- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- compunction,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurring,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- falter,
- faltering,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- jibbing,
- modest,
- modesty,
- objection,
- pause,
- protest,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- recoil,
- scruple,
- scrupling,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulous,
- scrupulousness,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- shyness,
- squeamish,
- sticking,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timid
- caution,
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- cautiousness,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dawdling,
- delaying,
- demurring,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- dilatoriness,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- dragging,
- equivocation,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fluctuating,
- fluctuation,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- jibbing,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lingering,
- loitering,
- lollygagging,
- oscillating,
- oscillation,
- oscillatory,
- pendulating,
- pendulation,
- procrastination,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- scrupling,
- shilly-shally,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tarrying,
- tentative,
- tentativeness,
- timid,
- vacillating,
- vacillation,
- vacillatory,
- wavering,
- wobbling,
- wobbly
- agnostic,
- ambiguous,
- balbutient,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- capricious,
- cautious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- demurring,
- dicey,
- diffident,
- doubting,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- faltering,
- fickle,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- modest,
- polysemous,
- qualmish,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- squeamish,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- stumbling,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- timid,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undivinable,
- unforeseeable,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- variable,
- wavering,
- whimsical
- diffident
collapse - lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
- showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture" related words >
- bashful,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- demure,
- demurring,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- goosy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- in fear,
- jibbing,
- jumpy,
- modest,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- qualmish,
- rabbity,
- reluctant,
- retiring,
- scary,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- self-deprecating,
- self-depreciating,
- self-depreciative,
- self-distrustful,
- self-doubting,
- self-effacing,
- shaky,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squeamish,
- startlish,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant
- timid
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- people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
- showing fear and lack of confidence related words >
- afraid,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- cautious,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- coy,
- craven,
- daunted,
- demure,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- humble,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- intimidated,
- jibbing,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- modest,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- retiring,
- scared,
- scary,
- scrupling,
- self-conscious,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- faltering
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- unsteady in speech or action related words >
- ambling,
- balbutient,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- easy,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indecisive,
- indolent,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lukewarm,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- modest,
- poking,
- poky,
- qualmish,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- squeamish,
- staggering,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- stumbling,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncertain,
- unhurried,
- vacillatory,
- waddling,
- wavering,
- wobbly
- hesitant
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- lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly related words >
- afraid,
- agnostic,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- averse,
- backward,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- canny,
- capricious,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- circumspect,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- dicey,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- dithering,
- doubting,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- faltering,
- fickle,
- fluctuating,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- halting,
- heedful,
- hesitating,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indisposed,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- loath,
- mindful,
- modest,
- noncommittal,
- of two minds,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pause,
- pawky,
- politic,
- polysemous,
- prudent,
- qualmish,
- regardful,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- slow to act,
- squeamish,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- timid,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- unadventurous,
- uncertain,
- uncommunicative,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undaring,
- undecided,
- undivinable,
- uneager,
- unenterprising,
- unforeseeable,
- unpersuaded,
- unprecipitate,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- unwilling,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- variable,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- wobbly
- bloat,
- bloating,
- bolting,
- breaking point,
- cautious,
- clarification,
- colature,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- corruption,
- demurring,
- destructive distillation,
- diffident,
- distension,
- distillation,
- distortion,
- draining,
- drudging,
- edulcoration,
- effusion,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- equivocation,
- essentialization,
- exaggeration,
- excretion,
- exfiltration,
- exhausting,
- extraction,
- extravasation,
- extreme tension,
- exudation,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- faltering,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- filtering,
- filtration,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- grueling,
- hardworking,
- haul,
- heave,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- inflation,
- jibbing,
- killing,
- laboring,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misinterpretation,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misuse,
- ooze,
- oozing,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overexertion,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstress,
- overstretching,
- overtaxing,
- pegging,
- percolating,
- percolation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- prevarication,
- pull,
- punishing,
- purification,
- rack,
- refinement,
- riddling,
- screening,
- scrupling,
- seep,
- seepage,
- separation,
- shilly-shallying,
- sieving,
- sifting,
- slanting,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- snapping point,
- spiritualization,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- strain,
- stress,
- stress and strain,
- stressful,
- stressfulness,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- striving,
- struggling,
- sublimation,
- sweating,
- swelling,
- taxing,
- tension,
- tentative,
- timid,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toiling,
- toilsome,
- torturing,
- transudation,
- trying,
- tug,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weep,
- weeping,
- winnowing,
- working
- cautious
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- cautious in attitude and careful in actions; prudent; "a cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing everything she was told"
- showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"
- avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" related words >
- alert,
- ambling,
- attentive,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- considerate,
- cozy,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- easy,
- expedient,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- foresighted,
- forethoughtful,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- guarded,
- halting,
- hard of belief,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- impervious to persuasion,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- indolent,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loving,
- lumbering,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- precautious,
- provident,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scheming,
- scrupling,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrewd,
- shuffling,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- solicitous,
- staggering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprecipitate,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- waddling,
- wary,
- watchful
- acting,
- ad hoc,
- ad interim,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- ambling,
- analytic,
- apprehensive,
- awkward,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- blankminded,
- callow,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- counterfeit,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- cut-and-try,
- dangerous,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- desultory,
- determined,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- disinclined,
- dumb,
- dummy,
- easy,
- empirical,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- examinational,
- examinatorial,
- examining,
- experimental,
- explorational,
- explorative,
- exploratory,
- fact-finding,
- fake,
- faltering,
- feeling,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gauche,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- green,
- groping,
- guarded,
- halting,
- hazardous,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heuristic,
- hit-or-miss,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- ignorant,
- imitation,
- improvisational,
- improvised,
- inane,
- indagative,
- indecisive,
- indolent,
- inexperienced,
- infirm,
- innocent,
- insecure,
- inspectional,
- inspectorial,
- insubstantial,
- interim,
- investigational,
- investigative,
- investigatory,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- jury-rigged,
- know-nothing,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- mindful,
- mock,
- moderate,
- naive,
- nescient,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- perilous,
- phony,
- pilot,
- pinch,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- precarious,
- probationary,
- probative,
- probatory,
- proving,
- provisional,
- provisory,
- proxy,
- prudent,
- raw,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- reserve,
- resolute,
- risky,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scrupling,
- secondary,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- simple,
- slack,
- slippery,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- spare,
- speculative,
- staggering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- stopgap,
- straining,
- strange to,
- strolling,
- substitute,
- temporary,
- test,
- testing,
- thorough,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- toddling,
- token,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- treacherous,
- trial,
- trial-and-error,
- trudging,
- trying,
- turtlelike,
- unacquainted,
- unadventurous,
- unapprized,
- uncertain,
- uncommunicative,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- undaring,
- undependable,
- uneasy,
- unenlightened,
- unenterprising,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfamiliar,
- unhurried,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unposted,
- unprecipitate,
- unreliable,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- unversed,
- utility,
- vacillatory,
- vacuous,
- venturesome,
- verificatory,
- vicarious,
- waddling,
- willing,
- wobbly,
- zetetic
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