The boy is bashful and doesn't talk much.
Source: tatoeba (268033)
Bashful
/[ˈbæʃfəɫ]/
Synonyms for "bashful" (127 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (63)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- αἰδήμων adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- αἰδοῖος adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Arabic
1 entries- خَجُول adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Aromanian
1 entries- arushinos adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Belarusian
1 entries- сарамлі́вы adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Bulgarian
3 entries- плах adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- свенли́в adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- срамежли́в adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏕᎰᏌᏘ adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 害羞 adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Danish
1 entries- sky adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Dutch
2 entries- timide adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- verlegen adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Finnish
1 entries- ujo adj (inclined to avoid notice)
French
1 entries- timide adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Galician
1 entries- recatado adj (inclined to avoid notice)
German
3 entries- scheu adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- schüchtern adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- verlegen adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Greek
1 entries- ντροπαλός adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Irish
3 entries- faiteach adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- náireach adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- náiriúil adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Italian
3 entries- modesto adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- timido adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- vergognoso adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Japanese
2 entries- 恥ずかしい adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- 恥ずかしがり屋の adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Khmer
1 entries- អៀន adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Korean
1 entries- 부끄럼을 타다 adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Latin
2 entries- pudens adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- verēcundus adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Latvian
1 entries- kaunīgs adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Malayalam
1 entries- ലജ്ജയുള്ള adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Māori
2 entries- konekone adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- numinumi adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- beskjeden adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- forlegen adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- sky adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- unnselig adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- beskjeden adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- forlegen adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- sky adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- اوتانغاچ adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- محجوب adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Portuguese
2 entries- recatado adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- tímido adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Romanian
1 entries- rușinos adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Russian
3 entries- засте́нчивый adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- ро́бкий adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- скро́мный adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Spanish
1 entries- tímido adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Turkish
1 entries- utangaç adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Ukrainian
3 entries- сором'язли́вий adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- сором'язни́й adj (inclined to avoid notice)
- соромли́вий adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Unami
1 entries- kwitayasi adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Welsh
1 entries- swil adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- wiling-jek adj (inclined to avoid notice)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Since he's in show business he often goofs around in a showy way, but once in a while he has these bashful mannerisms that are really cute.
Source: tatoeba (295770)
She is not so much unsociable as bashful.
Source: tatoeba (300172)
Tom looks bashful.
Source: tatoeba (2237210)
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