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bashful 音标拼音: [b'æʃfəl] a. 害羞的 害羞的 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) [ synonym: { bashful}, { blate}] 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] 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uncongenial, undemonstrative, uneasy, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unostentatious, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn
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