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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--trepid This week's theme: words better known in their negative forms. trepid (TREP-id) adjective Fearful; timid. [From Latin trepidus (alarmed).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "[The attacker] then fled, making good his escape by reason of his youth and athleticism, the crowds, ... and the trepid nature of common humanity in such circumstances." Ronan Bennett; Zugzwang: A Serial Novel; The Observer (London, UK); Jan 8, 2006. X-Bonus People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

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