Definition: people who are fearful and cautious
Usage: whitewater rafting is not for the timid
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: cautious
Definition: showing careful forethought
Usage: reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions; a cautious driver
Similar words: chary, cagey, cagy
Definition: characterized by great caution and wariness
Usage: a cagey avoidance of a definite answer; chary of the risks involved; a chary investor
Similar words: fabian
Definition: using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation
Usage: a fabian policy
Similar words: gingerly
Definition: with extreme care or delicacy
Usage: they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones; the issue was handled only in a gingerly way- W.S.White
Similar words: guarded, restrained
Definition: prudent
Usage: guarded optimism
Similar words: overcautious
Definition: unnecessarily cautious
Usage: sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business
Synonyms: cautious, conservative
Definition: avoiding excess
Usage: a conservative estimate
Similar words: moderate
Definition: being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
Usage: moderate prices; a moderate income; a moderate fine; moderate demands; a moderate estimate; a moderate eater; moderate success; a kitchen of moderate size; the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart