hesitant
After her last relationship ended the way it did, I don't blame her for being gun-shy about dating again.
I need to buy a new car, but I am admittedly gun-shy after my last one broke down so quickly.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Afraid
afraid
afraid for someone/something
afraid of someone/something
be in fear of your lifephrase
be like a deer/rabbit caught in the headlightsidiom
bottle
frit
goosey
have a horror of somethingidiom
horror-struck
in terror of your lifeidiom
leaf
panic
shake
shit a brickidiom
squirrelly
terrified
terror
terror-stricken
threatened

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Hesitating