Timid vs Troubled - What's the difference?
timid | troubled | Related terms |
Lacking in courage or confidence.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Anxious, worried, careworn.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(trouble)
Timid is a related term of troubled.
As adjectives the difference between timid and troubled
is that timid is timid; shy while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.As a verb troubled is
(trouble).timid
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Adjective
(er)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}