TIMID

Cautious and fearful

• Apprehensive

• Bashful

• Cautious

• Chicken

• Chicken-livered

• Clark Kent-like

• Clark Kentish

• Demure

• Diffident

• Easily alarmed

• Easily frightened

• Easily scared

• Edgy

• Fainthearted

• Far from aggressive

• Far from assertive

• Far from forward

• Hardly courageous

• Hardly heroic

• Hardly outgoing

• In 1501, it was fearful

• Indecisive

• Intrepid's antithesis

• Lacking backbone

• Lacking confidence

• Lacking in courage

• Like a deer

• Like a little rabbit

• Like a milquetoast

• Like a mouse

• Like a nebbish

• Like a shrinking violet

• Like a wallflower

• Like Caspar Milquetoast

• Like Clark Kent

• Like Milquetoast

• Like Mr. Milquetoast

• Like Piglet

• Like Tolkien's Bilbo Baggins

• Like wallflowers

• Lily-livered

• Meek

• Mousy

• Not assertive

• Not at all alpha

• Not at all brave

• Not bold

• Not exactly outgoing

• Not made of brass

• Pusillanimous

• Reticent to say, upon reflection, D-! I'm it!

• Retiring

• Said of a fraidy cat

• Sheepish

• Shrinking

• Shy

• Skittish

• Unassertive

• Unlike the life of the party

• Unlikely to mix

• Yellowish

• People who are fearful and cautious