Bashful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bashful \Bash"ful\ (b[a^]sh"f[.u]l), a. [See {Bash}.]
     1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]
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     2. Very modest, or modest to excess; constitutionally
        disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme


        or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action,
        expression.
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     Syn: Diffident; retiring; reserved; shamefaced; sheepish.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bashful
       adj 1: self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful;
              lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
       2: 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) [syn: {blate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  122 Moby Thesaurus words for "bashful":
     Olympian, 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, 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