intimidated

adjective

in·​tim·​i·​dat·​ed in-ˈti-mə-ˌdā-təd 

: made to feel timid : affected or held back by feelings of fear or timidity

When you're a collector and just starting out, you do feel a bit intimidated …

—Robert I. C. Fisher

For years, the civil rights lobby, backed by Democrats in Congress, was so strong that critics often felt intimidated.

—Joseph P. Shapiro

… he was a supreme boss with a thoroughly intimidated staff that yearned to see him destroyed.

—Russell Baker

She didn't know how to use any of the other cardio machines and was too intimidated to ask.

—Sarah Bowen Shea

Examples of intimidated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Americans were not intimidated, taking the game to Brazil in the early moments. —Steven Goff, Washington Post, 13 June 2024

Governance suffers when women are harassed into leaving politics or are too intimidated to get involved in the first place. —Jamille Bigio, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019

But for Raziq, the republican courts, corrupt and easily intimidated, were a central reason the insurgency was thriving. —Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024

The complaint alleges that Jewish professors reported incidents where MIT students disrupted the academic environment and intimidated faculty by yelling outside their offices while rattling the doors. —Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1748, in the meaning defined above