What's the difference between eerie and timid?

Eerie


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Eery

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nerdy Gales (@NerdyGales) The size of the crowd seems to be inducing the #USMNT to play like it's a scrimmage #USAvUKR @KidWeil March 5, 2014 It’s an eerie atmosphere for sure, but there are so many US players on the field who must know they are long shots for the World Cup squad and that this may be their best, if not final chance to get to Brazil.
  • (2) There is little that can compare to the videos of the black wall of water crashing through cities or the eerie aftermath of ships beached in carparks.
  • (3) It's huge and slightly eerie, with one column of light pouring in the top and a hairy wall made entirely of sleeping daddy longlegs.
  • (4) Murky crime drama Shetland (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) returns this week for a second series, revealing Shetland as the most eerie – and overcast – location on Earth.
  • (5) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (6) But what is eerie is how the film is beginning to surface just as media obsession with Kate Middleton – her wedding, her pregnancy – is beginning to grow as well.
  • (7) An eerie howling atmospherically emanated from the moor.
  • (8) An eerie silence descended on White Hart Lane after he collapsed – shortly before half time when the score stood at 1-1.
  • (9) Visiting Sousse’s hotels these days is an eerie experience, with empty pools, deserted bars and buffets laden with uneaten food.
  • (10) There was nothing to see for miles but sage-covered high desert, a landscape of stark beauty and eerie desolation.
  • (11) Yet there may be other, more abstract, objections contained in the eerie idea of that word: extinction, the permanent eradication of a species that has evolved and survived for thousands of years.
  • (12) In the novel, Dr Watson talks of “a spectral hound which leaves material footmarks”, and Holmes suspects that Stapleton used phosphorous to give the hound its eerie glow.
  • (13) Based on a 2004 film of the same name, Les Revenants was given its distinctive feel partly by the director's decision only to film between 4pm and 9pm – "Fabrice always wanted it to be dusk", said Thiam – and by the eerie, distinctive soundtrack created by Scottish band Mogwai.
  • (14) "In these very big firms, there's a slightly eerie feeling that it's so big you'll be there forever.
  • (15) Kerry, Ireland Kerry's hills are eerie and wet, but atmospheric.
  • (16) The 3-0 scoreline was nowhere as bad as their capitulation a few days earlier but the sense of melancholy was enhanced by the eerie indifferent atmosphere in Brasília – the booing and the ironic bullfighting-like chants to salute the Dutch passing proficiency never really threatened to reach the levels heard in Belo Horizonte, a city that unlike the Brazilian capital actually has a football culture.
  • (17) But there is an eerie calm – and ubiquitous posters praising Kadyrov and his father, Akhmad Kadyrov, the former leader killed at a stadium bombing in May 2004.
  • (18) When they got back up he said there was an eerie silence, with dead and injured parents and children all around them.
  • (19) Despite their eerie poignancy, some cycling campaigners worry that the memorials could, in fact, act in the main to put off would-be cyclists.
  • (20) There are eerie echoes of a certain Texas energy trading firm known as the "crooked E" that collapsed in 2001.

Timid


Definition:

  • (a.) Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
  • (2) The Senate’s economic references committee accused Asic of missing or ignoring persistent signs of wrongdoing , characterising it as a “timid, hesitant regulator” that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.
  • (3) Confirming that he would apply to be the next commissioner of the Met, he said: "I do not believe that the men and the women of the Met were timid, which is an accusation that has been levelled at us."
  • (4) When the police visited Rodger, whom Brown said deputies found “rather shy, timid and polite, well-spoken”, he played down any mental problems, telling police he was having difficulties with his social life and was planning to drop out of Santa Barbara City College.
  • (5) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
  • (6) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (7) Free-born animals are very timid and show typical flight reactions.
  • (8) On the left, meanwhile, we feel our way towards a progressive alliance much more timidly, even when we know we’re sunk without it.
  • (9) It is suspicious of the SNP's rather timid version of independence, always being described as being about "the full powers of the parliament" – which is hardly a language or outlook for transformational change.
  • (10) This is an international problem demanding an international response, which so far has been desperately timid.
  • (11) Like Cameron, who is disappointing Eurosceptics with the timidity of his reform programme, the Swiss have been forced to accede to the realities of negotiating with a much bigger player.
  • (12) Endogenous depressives were found to have more pronounced changes on measures of dependence and timidity, but when change in mood state was partialed out only one of the dependence measures and timidity remained significant.
  • (13) This kind of contacts led to a social activation especially by schizophreniacs who had a lack of drive and seemed to be regressive, also caused an increase of drive and self-reliance by formerly timid, reserved girls.
  • (14) Romney also took several digs at Clinton’s foreign policy record, characterizing her time with the Obama administration as “timid”.
  • (15) Australia have a patchy squad, but its best elements are valuable and there had been no prospect that they would lose timidly.
  • (16) In opposition, we were too timid about making these bigger arguments.” He has calculated that government spending on housing benefit will be £120bn over the next five years, almost £50bn of which goes to private landlords.
  • (17) After only a few weeks in Chile, Pinochet is finding the charms of his native land - the compliant judges, the supportive generals, the timid politicians - are not what they used to be.
  • (18) The sanctions imposed by western states against Russia represent a timid hope that economic hardship will make Russians resent the regime and nudge them towards active protests.
  • (19) It is the bold agenda against the timid one; the visionaries against those who believe Labour can limp home with a few safe offerings that can fit safely on the back of a pledge card.
  • (20) The Liberal Democrats are undecided (Nick Clegg calls it "timid"), the crossbenchers unlikely to co-operate.