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bashful

[ˈbæʃfəɫ]

bashful adjective: shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.

Adjective

bashful (comparative more bashful, superlative most bashful)

  1. Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
  2. Indicating bashfulness.
    • a bashful look
    • “Have you done something to your hair?”
      “I just ran a comb through it,” shrugged the vicar.
      “Well, it looks delightful.”
      “How delightful of you to say so.” Auntie Flip and the vicar shared bashful grins. Frank had never witnessed his babysitter behave like this before.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

bashful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

bashful in Hindi

bashful, shy
शरमिंदा śarmindā

bashful in Tamil

கூச்சமிகு, நாணமிகு, நாணமுள்ள, கூச்சமுடைய, குழப்பமடைந்த, எளிதில் குழப்பமடைகிற

bashful in Urdu

bashful
شرمگیں śarmgī̃

bashful in Bengali

লাজুক, কুণ্ঠিত
More languagesFewer languages
bashful in Malayalam
ലജ്ജയുള്ള lajjayuḷḷa
bashful in Kannada
ಲಜ್ಜೆಯಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ, ನಾಚಿಕೆಯುಳ್ಳ
bashful in Arabic
خَجُول ḵajūl

Synonyms of bashful

Forms of bashful

comparativemore bashful
superlativemost bashful
alternative form (archaic)bashfull

Origin of bashful

16th-century apheresis of abashed + -ful (“full of”).

Words formed from bashful

Phrases with bashful

Questions about bashful

What does bashful mean?
Bashful means shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.
What is bashful in Hindi?
Bashful in Hindi is शरमिंदा (śarmindā). See Bashful meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bashful?
Bashful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce bashful?
Bashful is pronounced [ˈbæʃfəɫ].

Words near bashful in the dictionary

  1. bashes up
  2. bashfest
  3. bashfests
  4. Bashford
  5. Bashfords
  6. bashful
  7. Bashful Billy
  8. bashful bladder
  9. bashful bladders
  10. bashfulest
  11. bashfull

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bashful (page history and authors); शरमिंदा (Hindi) (page history and authors); bashful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); شرمگیں (Urdu) (page history and authors); bashful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bashful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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