Definition of Bashful

1. Adjective. Self-consciously timid. "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"

Similar to: Timid
Derivative terms: Bashfulness

2. Adjective. Disposed to avoid notice. "They considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"
Exact synonyms: Blate
Geographical relationships: Scotland
Similar to: Backward

Definition of Bashful

1. a. Abashed; daunted; dismayed.

Definition of Bashful

1. Adjective. inclined to avoid notice ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bashful

1. shy; timid [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bashful

bash out
bash up
basha
bashaw
bashaws
bashed
bashed the bishop
bashedness
basher
bashers
bashert
basherts
bashes
bashes the bishop
bashful (current term)
bashfull
bashfuller
bashfully
bashfulness
bashfulnesses
bashi-bazouk
bashi-bazouks
bashibazouk
bashibazouks
bashin'
bashing
bashing the bishop
bashings
bashism

Literary usage of Bashful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"For once, 0 Fortune ! hear my prayer, And I absolve thy future care— All other blessings I resign ; Make but the dear Amanda mine ! THE bashful LOVER ..."

2. A Bunch of Yarns and Rare Bits of Humor: An Original Collection of After by Francis J. Cahill (1906)
"ESS, your beau seems very bashful," said mamma to her daughter. "bashful!" echoed the daughter, "bashful is no name for it." "Why don't you encourage him a ..."

3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"He has not dragged into light a bashful and corrigible sinner. His censure was directed against a breach of morality, against an act which no man justifies. ..."

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