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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bashful \Bash"ful\ (b[a^]sh"f[.u]l), adjective [See {Bash}.]
1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]
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.
Syn: Diffident; retiring; reserved; shamefaced; sheepish.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bashful
adjective
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uncongenial, undemonstrative, uneasy, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unostentatious, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn
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