Bashful means shy or timid. You might feel bashful when meeting a famous actress, a high ranking government official, or just someone whom you find really good looking.
Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
Adjective S.
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)
Adjective S.
self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
a.
Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
a.
Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed
to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty;
shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
Bashful
Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
Usage Examples
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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Other Usage ExamplesMiss Child is never bashful with butter.