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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. self-consciously timid;
- Example: "I never laughed, being bashful lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound;

2. disposed to avoid notice;
- Example: "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it" (`blate'; is a Scottish term for bashful);
[syn: bashful, blate]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bashful \Bash"ful\ (b[a^]sh"f[.u]l), a. [See Bash.]
   1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]
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   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.
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   Syn: Diffident; retiring; reserved; shamefaced; sheepish.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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) [syn: bashful,
       blate]