'Bashful' definitions:
Definition of 'bashful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
adjective
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: bashful, blate]
Definition of 'Bashful'
From: GCIDE
- Bashful \Bash"ful\ (b[a^]sh"f[.u]l), a. [See Bash.]
- 1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Diffident; retiring; reserved; shamefaced; sheepish. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bashful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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- withdrawn