About The Word Bashful
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Bashful
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What's The Definition Of Bashful?
[adj] disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
[adj] self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound Synonyms | Synonyms for Bashful: backward | blate | timid Related Terms | Find terms related to Bashful: abashed | aloof | autistic | awkward | backward | blank | blushful | boggling | chilled | chilly | close | cold | confused | conscious | constrained | cool | cowardly | coy | demure | demurring | detached | diffident | discreet | dissociable | distant | embarrassed | expressionless | faltering | fearful | fearing | fearsome | forbidding | frigid | frosty | goosy | guarded | hesitant | hesitating | icy | ill at ease | impassive | impersonal | in a tizzy | in fear | inaccessible | inarticulate | incompatible | insociable | introverted | jumpy | meek | modest | mopey | mopish | morose | mousy | nervous | nongregarious | offish | Olympian | qualmish | rabbity | recoiling | remote | removed | repressed | reserved | restrained | reticent | retiring | scary | scrupulous | self-conscious | self-contained | self-effacing | self-sufficient | shaky | shamefaced | shamefast | sheepish | shivery | shrinking | shy | skittery | skittish | snug | socially incompatible | squeamish | stammering | standoff | standoffish | startlish | stickling | subdued | sullen | suppressed | timid | timorous | trembling | tremulous | trepidant | trigger-happy | unaffable | unapproachable | unassertive | unassuming | unassured | unclubbable | uncomfortable | uncommunicative | uncompanionable | unconfident | uncongenial | undemonstrative | uneasy | unexpansive | unfriendly | ungenial | unostentatious | unsociable | unsocial | withdrawn See Also | Bashful In Webster's Dictionary \Bash"ful\, a. [See {Bash}.]
1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]
2. Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed
to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or
excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action,
expression.
Syn: Diffident; retiring; reserved; shamefaced; sheepish.
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