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Timid by nature
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trepid
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Word definitions for trepid in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trepid \Trep"id\, a. [L. trepidus.] Trembling; quaking. --Thackeray.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. timid, timorous, fearful
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"trembling from fear or terror," 1640s, from Latin trepidus "scared" (see trepidation ). Related: Trepidly ; trepidness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog" [syn: fearful , timorous ]
Usage examples of trepid.
It had been a little more than a year since she and Howie Brindle, a few months married, had set off from Bahia Mar in the Trepid to take their sweet long time going around the world.
Lewellen had given up on it before I got a chance to talk to him a year later, when the Trepid came gliding into Bahia Mar, showing the effects of long sea duty.
Ted Lewellen had given up on it before I got a chance to talk to him a year later, when the Trepid came gliding into Bahia Mar, showing the effects of long sea duty.
The Trepid was well laced into her U-shaped slip, stern to the pier, with husky stern lines crossed to the big bollards, bow lines to the pilings, and a pair of spring lines to big cleats on the narrow dock on the starboard.
And this was the first time I'd seen the Trepid since we all watched her take off one morning in November over a year ago, moving out into the tide run, tipping to the first ground swell, aiming southeast once past the sea buoy, about 105 degrees, the farewell champagne still cold in the glass.