Dictionary Entry
shy
shy is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 7 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
- 2superlative
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
- 3superlative
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- 4adjective
To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
- 5transitive verb
To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
- 6noun
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- 7noun
A side throw; a throw; a fling.
- 8noun
a quick throw
"he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"
- 9verb
throw quickly
- 10verb
start suddenly, as from fright
- 11adjective
wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
"shy of strangers"
- 12adjective
lacking self-confidence
"stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"
"problems that call for bold not timid responses"
- 13adjective
short
"eleven is one shy of a dozen"
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