English search results for: timid [shy diffident]
#1
adjective
Definitions:
- afraid to
- cowardly
- fearful, apprehensive
- timid
- without courage
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2
adjective
Definitions:
- discouraged/worried (Souter)
- fainthearted, timid, pusillanimous
- meanspirited
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#3
adjective
Definitions:
- frightful
- timid
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#4
adjective
Definitions:
- discouraged/worried (Souter)
- fainthearted, timid, pusillanimous
- meanspirited
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#5
adjective
Definitions:
- discouraged/worried (Souter)
- fainthearted, timid, pusillanimous
- meanspirited
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949