shy (Also shying, shyest, shiest, shier, shies, shyer, shied) : Related Words Words similar in meaning to shy

  • timid«
  • diffident«
  • unsure«
  • timorous«
  • throw«
  • bashful«
  • shy«
  • wary«
  • shyness«
  • deficient«
  • diffidence«
  • insufficient«
  • timidity«
  • self-doubt«
  • timorousness«
  • timidness«
  • self-distrust«
  • short«
  • cold feet«
  • low«
  • poor«
  • fearful«
  • on your guard«
  • lean«
  • faint«
  • confidence«
  • upon one's guard«
  • on one's guard«
  • on guard«
  • light«
  • scant«
  • skimpy«
  • hesitancy«
  • inadequate«
  • fainthearted«
  • wariness«
  • depleted«
  • inadequacy«
  • unassertiveness«
  • trepid«
  • faint-hearted«
  • chariness«
  • hesitance«
  • deficiency«
  • insufficiency«
  • work-shy«
  • woman-shy«
  • water-shy«
  • hesitant«
  • shy bairns get nowt«
  • shy bairns get noot«
  • wanting«
  • people-shy«
  • noise-shy«
  • leery«
  • mouse-shy«
  • coy«
  • man-shy«
  • intimidated«
  • hand-shy«
  • cagey«
  • gun-shy«
  • reserved«
  • girl-shy«
  • stingy«
  • cover-shy«
  • lacking«
  • coconut shy«
  • mousy«
  • cat-shy«
  • hesitating«
  • car-shy«
  • deficit«
  • camera-shy«
  • suspicious«
  • boy-shy«
  • meager«
  • bird-shy«
  • cowardly«
  • -shy«
  • shortness«
  • shier«
  • mistrustful«
  • horse«
  • meagre«
  • shies«
  • unassertive«
  • confidential«
  • withdrawingly«
  • shortfall«
  • wallflowerish«
  • meagerly«
  • wall game«
  • shortage«
  • unshy«
  • throwing«
  • quantity«
  • startish«
  • scrimpy«
  • start«
  • scarceness«
  • sook«
  • scantness«
  • skew«
  • scantiness«
  • skar«
  • poorness«
  • meagreness«
  • shyly«
  • meagerness«
  • shyish«
  • lowness«
  • shying«
  • inadequateness«
  • faintheartedness«
  • exiguity«
  • shrinking violet«
  • cagy«
  • untrusting«
  • shiest«
  • scarcity«
  • mousey«
  • chary«
  • faintness«
  • leanness«
  • slenderness«
  • close«
  • slim«
  • shied«
  • confident«
  • sheepish«
  • cautious«
  • shamefast«
  • afraid«
  • self-effacing«
  • aloof«
  • scrubbird«
  • reticent«
  • retiring«
  • distant«
  • miserable«
  • recondite«
  • pudibund«
  • paiseh«
  • nonshy«
  • paltry«
  • mouse«
  • jump«
  • mauvaise honte«
  • bare«
  • less«
  • slender«
  • fling«
  • backward«
  • flinchy«
  • forgetful«
  • eschew«
  • embarrassed«
  • indecisive«
  • demure«
  • measly«
  • hesitation«
  • cockshy«
  • spare«
  • yellow«
  • oxygen deficit«
  • calx«
  • rarity«
  • funky«
  • brogrammer«
  • distrustful«
  • bring out«
  • hesitate«
  • reluctance«
  • avoid«
  • suspicion«
  • aside«
  • waver«
  • sneer«
  • unwary«
  • chicken«
  • craven«
  • scarce«
  • withdrawn«
  • hardscrabble«
  • unmanly«
  • abundance«
  • upstage«
  • cowardice«
  • startle«
  • distrust«
  • scanty«
  • dearth«
  • dastardly«
  • hand-to-mouth«
  • coward«
  • unequal«
  • mistrust«
  • misgiving«
  • unadventurous«
  • thinness«
  • paucity«
  • waffle«
  • white-livered«
  • wateriness«
  • unretentive«
  • teemingness«
  • recreant«
  • poor-spirited«
  • poltroon«
  • nonassertive«
  • low-toned«
  • lily-livered«
  • indrawn«
  • exiguous«
  • dastard«
  • copiousness«
  • chickenhearted«
  • caitiff«
  • abstemiousness«
  • abashment«
  • bashfulness«
  • low-pitched«
  • disinclination«
  • indisposition«
  • spareness«
  • pusillanimous«
  • sparseness«
  • suspiciousness«
  • yellow-bellied«
  • rareness«
  • cowardliness«
  • fearfulness«
  • leer«
  • infrequency«
  • sparsity«
  • shy person«
  • little«
  • scared«
  • person«
  • funny«
  • good«
  • cynical«
  • flap down«
  • down«
  • someone«
  • frightened«
  • jealous«
  • restrained«
  • depressed«
  • rear back«
  • familiar«
  • reluctant«
  • dear«
  • somebody«
  • skeptical«
  • shocked«
  • tight«
  • thin«
  • undecided«
  • apprehensive«
  • weak«
  • assured«
  • soft«
  • slight«
  • distance«
  • narrow margin«
  • gullible«
  • individual«
  • incapable«
  • numb«
  • deep«
  • rare«
  • pass«
  • pitch«
  • unequal to«
  • slam«
  • care«
  • loath«
  • terrified«
  • rich«
  • fear«
  • intimate«
  • throw overboard«
  • soul«
  • on the fence«
  • caution«
  • closely knit«
  • minimum«
  • questioning«
  • alarmed«
  • small«
  • plenty«
  • cast«
  • positive«
  • overconfident«
  • horrified«
  • incompetent«
  • dismayed«
  • safe«
  • appalled«
  • aghast«
  • shady«
  • delivery«
  • claustrophobic«
  • ground«
  • drive«
  • thick«
  • cringe«
  • hunted«
  • sceptical«
  • panicky«
  • sparse«
  • doubting«
  • crawl«
  • panicked«
  • wavering«
  • gingerly«
  • intimacy«
  • reduced«
  • chummy«
  • near«
  • cow«
  • minimal«
  • submissive«
  • chuck«
  • cozy«
  • infrequent«
  • inhibited«
  • indecision«
  • unnerved«
  • hover«
  • cocksure«
  • fragile«
  • flip«
  • reassured«
  • washy«
  • suspect«
  • unguarded«
  • faltering«
  • self-assured«
  • mortal«
  • misanthropic«
  • guarded«
  • bowling«
  • embarrass«
  • skip«
  • hangdog«
  • flick«
  • throaty«
  • toss«
  • tenuous«
  • wealth«
  • boon«
  • leaner«
  • slinging«
  • self-confident«
  • creep«
  • authority«
  • fawn«
  • juggle«
  • plentiful«
  • cur«
  • deliver«
  • fishy«
  • watery«
  • bounty«
  • sloth«
  • heaving«
  • aloofness«
  • assurance«
  • unprofitable«
  • contralto«
  • teeming«
  • trim«
  • baritone«
  • falter«
  • boggle«
  • undermanned«
  • undemonstrative«
  • heave«
  • precaution«
  • agoraphobic«
  • abstemious«
  • linger«
  • lob«
  • sufficient«
  • approximate«
  • abundant«
  • voluminous«
  • closeness«
  • understaffed«
  • bass«
  • degraded«
  • vacillation«
  • prostrate«
  • ignoble«
  • fright«
  • close-knit«
  • indecisiveness«
  • wimp«
  • richness«
  • forgetfulness«
  • ridge«
  • vibrate«
  • throw-in«
  • cower«
  • overcautious«
  • adequacy«
  • ample«
  • forethought«
  • devalued«
  • sissy«
  • quaker«
  • abound«
  • narrowness«
  • self-confidence«
  • xenophobic«
  • flimsy«
  • thrower«
  • sufficiency«
  • softness«
  • green-eyed«
  • pansy«
  • alto«
  • debased«
  • profusion«
  • remoteness«
  • womanishness«
  • withdrawnness«
  • waverer«
  • vacillator«
  • unwariness«
  • unmanliness«
  • triskaidekaphobic«
  • terror-struck«
  • terror-stricken«
  • standoffishness«
  • sorriness«
  • slothfulness«
  • sissiness«
  • short-staffed«
  • shitless«
  • rock-bottom«
  • resourceless«
  • pusillanimousness«
  • pusillanimity«
  • profuseness«
  • plentitude«
  • plentifulness«
  • plenteousness«
  • plenteous«
  • pantywaist«
  • panic-struck«
  • paltriness«
  • oversuspicious«
  • overmuchness«
  • overjealous«
  • mysophobic«
  • misogynic«
  • misanthropical«
  • milksop«
  • indispose«
  • horror-struck«
  • horror-stricken«
  • hesitator«
  • hesitater«
  • gutlessness«
  • effeminateness«
  • distrustfulness«
  • disincline«
  • defenestrate«
  • deep-six«
  • dastardliness«
  • cravenness«
  • buddy-buddy«
  • bountifulness«
  • blate«
  • aquaphobic«
  • algophobic«
  • afeared«
  • afeard«
  • acrophobic«
  • abash«
  • overabundance«
  • fabian«
  • nonaggressive«
  • panic-stricken«
  • short-handed«
  • effeminacy«
  • oscillate«
  • amplitude«
  • cautiousness«
  • loth«
  • copious«
  • jettison«
  • grovel«
  • unaggressive«
  • hurtle«
  • jackrabbit«
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