Word of the Day for Thursday, June 29, 2006 timorous \TIM-uhr-uhs\, adjective:1. Full of apprehensiveness; timid; fearful.2. Indicating, or caused by, fear. Girls, allegedly so timorous and lacking in confidence, now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and even in debating clubs.-- Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys Some men by the unalterable frame of their constitutions, are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest.-- John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.-- Seamus Heaney, "Elegy" The source of timorous is Latin timor, "fear." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for timorous