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Word Meanings - BASHFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. 2. Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression. Syn. -- Diffident; retiring; reserved;
Additional info about word: BASHFUL
1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. 2. Very modest, or modest 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.
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- RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - CHARYBDIS
A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - SHRINKINGLY
In a shrinking manner. - MODESTLY
In a modest manner. - RETREATMENT
The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey. - MODESTY
1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy - BASHFULNESS
The quality of being bashful. Syn. -- Bashfulness, Modesty, Diffidence, Shyness. Modesty arises from a low estimate of ourselves; bashfulness is an abashment or agitation of the spirits at coming into contact with others; diffidence is produced - SHRINKING
from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser. - TIMIDITY
The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness. - RESERVOR
One who reserves; a reserver. - TIMID
Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly, - RESERVATIVE
Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving. - SUSPICION
suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio 1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension - SHRINKER
One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger. - RESERVATION
1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed - TIMIDOUS
Timid. Hudibras. - BASHFULLY
In a bashful manner. - RESERVOIR
A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir , a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply. (more info) 1. A place where anything is - RESERVATORY
A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward. - UNBASHFUL
Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak. - FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n. - IMMODESTLY
In an immodest manner. - INTIMIDATORY
Tending or serving to intimidate. - INTIMIDATE
To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;