Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed. He seemed bashful and awkward a bashful young lady. = shy + bashfully bash·ful·ly `No,' Wang Fu said bashfully. + bashfulness bash·ful·ness I was overcome with bashfulness when I met her. easily embarrassed in social situations = shy (bash (14-17 centuries), from abash; ABASHED)
Very modest, or modest to excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression
disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound