bashful

English

Alternative forms

• bashfull (archaic)

Etymology

Apheresis of abashed +‎ -ful (“full of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbæʃfəɫ], [ˈbæʃfʊɫ]

Adjective

bashful (comparative more bashful, superlative most bashful)

1. Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
2. Indicating bashfulness.

   a bashful look

Synonyms

• shy
• See also Thesaurus:shy

Derived terms

• bashfully
• bashfulness

Translations

inclined to avoid notice

• Arabic: خَجُول (ḵajūl)
• Aromanian: arushinos
• Belarusian: сарамлі́вы (saramlívy)
• Bulgarian: плах (bg) (plah), свенли́в (bg) (svenlív), срамежли́в (bg) (sramežlív)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏕᎰᏌᏘ (udehosati)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 害羞 (zh) (hàixiū)

• Dutch: verlegen (nl), timide (nl)
• Finnish: ujo (fi)
• French: timide (fr)
• German: schüchtern (de), verlegen (de), scheu (de)
• Greek: ντροπαλός (el) (ntropalós)

  Ancient: αἰδήμων (aidḗmōn), αἰδοῖος (aidoîos)

• Irish: náireach, náiriúil
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• Italian: vergognoso (it), timido (it), modesto (it)
• Japanese: 恥ずかしがり屋の (はずかしがりやの, hazukashigariya no), 恥ずかしい (ja) (はずかし​い, hazukashii)
• Khmer: អៀន (km) (ʼiən)
• Korean: 부끄럼을 타다 (bukkeureomeul tada)
• Latin: pudens, verēcundus
• Latvian: kaunīgs
• Maori: konekone, numinumi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beskjeden (no), sky (no), forlegen, unnselig (no)

  Nynorsk: beskjeden, sky, forlegen

• Portuguese: tímido (pt), recatado (pt)
• Romanian: rușinos (ro)
• Russian: засте́нчивый (ru) (zasténčivyj), ро́бкий (ru) (róbkij), скро́мный (ru) (skrómnyj)
• Spanish: tímido (es)
• Turkish: utangaç (tr)
• Ukrainian: соромли́вий (soromlývyj), сором'язли́вий (uk) (soromʺjazlývyj), сором'язни́й (soromʺjaznýj)
• Welsh: swil (cy)