bashful

bashful is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Abashed; daunted; dismayed. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
2. adjective. Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
3. adjective. disposed to avoid notice; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)

   "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"

   Synonyms: blate

4. adjective. self-consciously timid- Ezra Pound

   "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"

Synonyms

blate

Common word forms

bashfully, bashfuller, bashfulness

Words from these letters

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