Word Meanings - SHEEP-FACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Over-bashful; sheepish.

Related words: (words related to SHEEP-FACED)

• 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
• BASHFULLY
  In a bashful manner.
• SHEEPISH
  1. Of or pertaining to sheep. 2. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature. Locke. -- Sheep"ish*ly, adv.
• 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;
• UNBASHFUL
  Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak.