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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective bashful has 2 senses

• bashful(s = adj.all) Array - self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"
Derived form noun bashfulness₁

• bashful(s = adj.all) blate - disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"

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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uncongenial, undemonstrative, uneasy, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unostentatious, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn

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Modesty

N modesty, humility, diffidence, timidity, retiring disposition, unobtrusiveness, bashfulness, mauvaise honte, blush, blushing, verecundity, self-knowledge, reserve, constraint, demureness, blushing honors, modest, diffident, humble, timid, timorous, bashful, shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest, unpretending, unpretentious, unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful, unaspiring, poor in spirit, out of countenance, reserved, constrained, demure, humbly, quietly, privately, without ceremony, without beat of drum, sans fa, not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty, thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.

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