s self-consciously timid; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
I never laughed, being bashful
s disposed to avoid notice; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it
n a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use
n (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
a pertaining to or constituting a base or basis
a basic fact the basic ingredients basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities
s reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
a basic story line
s serving as a base or starting point
a basic course in Russian basic training for raw recruits a set of basic tools
s of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base