The meaning of Bashful

adjective

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Usage examples:

He felt apprehensive about going home

adjective

Feeling anxiety about the future; fearing that something unpleasant will happen

Usage examples:

We’re all apprehensive about tomorrow’s meeting., they looked apprehensively around the room.

adjective

(especially with reference to a woman) making a pretence of shyness or modesty which is intended to be alluring.

Usage examples:

She treated him to a coy smile of invitation

abbreviation

Company.

adjective

Acting shy, uncertain, or unwilling to say much, often in order to increase interest in something by keeping back information about it

Usage examples:

Mcintyre is coy about his future in football., she smiled coyly.

adjective

Reserved, modest, and shy (typically used of a woman).

Usage examples:

A demure young lady

adjective

(esp. of women and girls) quiet and well behaved

Usage examples:

Two demure little girls sat near their mother.

adjective

Modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence.

Usage examples:

A diffident youth

adjective

Shy and not confident of your abilities

Usage examples:

A diffident manner, you shouldn't be so diffident about your achievements - you've done really well!

adjective

Expressing or feeling uncertainty or lack of conviction; sceptical.

Usage examples:

Some doubting voices were raised over the price

verb

Feel uncertain about.

Usage examples:

I doubt my ability to do the job

verb

Present participle of doubt

Usage examples:

I doubt whether/if i can finish the work on time., [ + that ] they had begun to doubt that it could…

adjective

Tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking.

Usage examples:

Clients are hesitant about buying

adjective

If you are hesitant, you do not do something immediately or quickly because you are nervous or not certain

Usage examples:

You seemed a bit hesitant about recommending that restaurant - is something wrong with it?, she gav…

adjective

Unable to act in a relaxed and natural way because of self-consciousness or mental restraint.

Usage examples:

I could never appear nude, i'm far too inhibited

verb

Hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process).

Usage examples:

Cold inhibits plant growth

adjective

Not confident enough to say or do what you want

Usage examples:

The presence of strangers made her feel inhibited.

adjective

Not firm or fixed; liable to give way or break.

Usage examples:

An insecure footbridge

adjective

(of people) lacking confidence and doubting their own abilities

Usage examples:

Eleanor was shy and insecure as a child., the stairs seemed kind of rickety and insecure.

adjective

Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive.

Usage examples:

She brought her meek little husband along

adjective

Quiet and unwilling to disagree or fight or to strongly support personal ideas and opinions

Usage examples:

He’s slight, meek, and balding, and hardly heroic., jennifer meekly suggested that maybe it won't h…

adjective

Easily agitated or alarmed.

Usage examples:

A sensitive, nervous person

adjective

Unwilling and hesitant; disinclined.

Usage examples:

She seemed reluctant to answer

Not eager

adjective

Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.

Usage examples:

He is a reserved, almost taciturn man

verb

Retain for future use.

Usage examples:

Roll out half the dough and reserve the other half

adjective

Tending to keep your feelings or thoughts private rather than showing them

Usage examples:

Marcus is more reserved than his brother.

adjective

Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.

Usage examples:

She was extremely reticent about her personal affairs

adjective

Unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings

Usage examples:

At first she was reticent, but later she relaxed and was more forthcoming., due to his reticence, l…

adjective

Shy and fond of being on one's own.

Usage examples:

A gentle, retiring person who avoided conflict

verb

Leave one's job and cease to work, typically on reaching the normal age for leaving service.

Usage examples:

He retired from the navy in 1986

adjective

Unwilling to be noticed or to be with other people

Usage examples:

He’s a shy, retiring sort of person.

Aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being

adjective

Feeling undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions.

Usage examples:

I feel a bit self-conscious parking my scruffy old car

adjective

(especially of an action or intention) deliberate and with full awareness, especially affectedly so.

Usage examples:

Her self-conscious identification with the upper classes

adjective

Becoming smaller in size or amount.

Usage examples:

The shrinking market has provoked a massive price war

verb

Become or make smaller in size or amount.

Usage examples:

The workforce shrank to a thousand

adjective

Becoming smaller or less

Usage examples:

The shrinking workforce would have to support a growing number of retired people., rapidly/steadily…

adjective

Nervous or timid in the company of other people.

Usage examples:

I was pretty shy at school

verb

(especially of a horse) start suddenly aside in fright at an object, noise, or movement.

Usage examples:

Their horses shied at the unfamiliar sight

noun

A sudden startled movement, especially of a frightened horse.

adjective

Showing a lack of courage or confidence; easily frightened.

Usage examples:

I was too timid to ask for what i wanted

adjective

Showing or suffering from nervousness or a lack of confidence.

Usage examples:

A timorous voice

adjective

Nervous and without much confidence

adjective

Not confident; hesitant.

Usage examples:

The airmen were young, but not unconfident

adjective

Not confident

Usage examples:

He is very unconfident about his work.

adjective

Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.

Usage examples:

Dogs which have been mistreated often remain very wary of strangers