Definition for Shy:

• ( shyer, -est, rarely shi-). ( Of beasts, birds, fish, &c.) easily startled, timid, avoiding observation; bashful, coy, uneasy in company; avoiding company of person, chary of doing, ( fight s. of); elusive, hard to find, catch, interpret, &c. Hence shyly adv., shyness n. [ Danish]

Synonyms for Shy:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • timid,
  • unsure,
  • diffident.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • yellow-bellied,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • shrinking.
  •deficient (adjective)
  • incomplete.
  •failing (adjective)
  • Unsufficient.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • worried,
  • cowardly,
  • phobic,
  • shaky.
  •humble (adjective)
  • unambitious,
  • unpretentious.
  •inconspicuous (adjective)
  • Unconspicuous.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • insufficient,
  • out of,
  • short of,
  • inadequate.
  •irresolute (adjective)
  • irresponsible,
  • capricious,
  • unresolved,
  • uncertain,
  • unwilling,
  • changeable,
  • hesitant,
  • volatile,
  • impulsive,
  • shrinking,
  • irresolute,
  • insipid,
  • inconsistent,
  • ambivalent,
  • undecided,
  • spineless,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • halfhearted,
  • erratic,
  • double-minded,
  • weak,
  • fickle,
  • infirm,
  • shifty,
  • undependable,
  • fly-by-night,
  • tentative,
  • Flitting,
  • unsure,
  • dillydallying,
  • indecisive,
  • yellow,
  • vacillating,
  • watery.
  •lacking, failing (adjective)
  • scant,
  • inadequate,
  • wanting,
  • insufficient,
  • scarce,
  • deficient,
  • Unsufficient,
  • scanty,
  • short.
  •modest (adjective)
  • diffident,
  • unobtrusive,
  • coy,
  • modest,
  • self-effacing,
  • undemonstrative,
  • timid,
  • selfless,
  • meek,
  • humble,
  • bashful,
  • unassertive,
  • demure,
  • unselfish,
  • reserved.
  •quiet and self-conscious (adjective)
  • introvert,
  • reluctant,
  • bashful,
  • humble,
  • afraid,
  • timid,
  • reticent,
  • recessive,
  • fearful,
  • unassured,
  • wary,
  • retiring,
  • shrinking,
  • distrustful,
  • diffident,
  • loath,
  • shamefaced,
  • coy,
  • demure,
  • indisposed,
  • unassertive,
  • suspicious,
  • circumspect,
  • skittish,
  • modest,
  • disinclined,
  • nervous,
  • apprehensive,
  • cautious,
  • unsocial,
  • chary,
  • hesitant,
  • conscious,
  • averse,
  • reserved,
  • unresponsive,
  • introverted,
  • uneager,
  • loner,
  • unwilling,
  • self-effacing,
  • uneffusive,
  • backward,
  • sheepish.
  •self-conscious (adjective)
  • self-conscious.
  •short (adjective)
  • short.
  •silent (adjective)
  • mum.
  •soft (adjective)
  • weak-willed.
  •timorous (adjective)
  • timorous.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • disinclined.

• n.

  •
  • inhibited,
  • retiring,
  • backward,
  • insecure,
  • ill at ease,
  • lost,
  • self-effacing.
  •
  • scarce,
  • cast,
  • under,
  • short,
  • wanting,
  • inadequate.
  •
  • quail,
  • recoil,
  • start,
  • flinch,
  • cringe,
  • wince,
  • shrink,
  • blench.
  •retiring (noun)
  • timorous.
  •shy (noun)
  • insufficient,
  • unsure,
  • deficient,
  • timid,
  • diffident,
  • unconfident,
  • wary.

• v.

  •deflect (verb)
  • deviate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inhibited,
  • self-effacing,
  • throw,
  • cowardly.
  •
  • hurl,
  • insecure,
  • launch,
  • retiring,
  • scarce,
  • cringe,
  • quail,
  • inferior,
  • mousy,
  • flinch,
  • blench,
  • fling,
  • awkwardly.
  •
  • sling,
  • under,
  • toss,
  • hurtle,
  • recoil.
  •
  • heave,
  • dart,
  • pitch,
  • lost,
  • shrink,
  • dash.
  •
  • awkward.
  •
  • wanting,
  • start.
  •
  • cast.
  •
  • short.
  •
  • shoot.
  •avoid
  • ward off,
  • hold off,
  • turn aside,
  • steer clear of,
  • step aside,
  • shrink from.
  •deflect
  • glance off.
  •deviate
  • edge off,
  • bear off.
  •disagree
  • dissent,
  • demur.
  •draw back
  • wince.
  •fear
  • have qualms,
  • Fearing.
  •flinch
  • start.
  •introverted
  • withdrawn.
  •reserved
  • uncommitted.
  •retiring
  • backward.
  •scruple
  • be unwilling,
  • think twice about,
  • be loath,
  • scruple,
  • be reluctant.
  •timid
  • sheepish,
  • tremulous,
  • nervous.
  •unsure
  • self-conscious.
  •withdrawn
  • introverted.
  •Other relevant words:
  • meander,
  • shorten,
  • Stickling,
  • cringing,
  • embryonic,
  • arrested,
  • potshot,
  • regurgitate,
  • forlorn of,
  • edgy,
  • distant,
  • detached,
  • weasel,
  • stammering,
  • start back,
  • neutral,
  • ponder,
  • be averse,
  • rove,
  • unpretentious,
  • jab,
  • diffidence,
  • mystify,
  • recital,
  • white-livered,
  • cowardly,
  • fearful,
  • retreat,
  • nonintervention,
  • afraid,
  • deliberate,
  • flinch,
  • fastidious,
  • uneffusive,
  • sideswipe,
  • reel,
  • edge off,
  • back down,
  • lily-livered,
  • shamefaced,
  • cautiously,
  • step aside,
  • empty of,
  • apprehensively,
  • untrustworthy,
  • make good,
  • inconspicuous,
  • deviate,
  • unnoticeable,
  • probation,
  • dash,
  • discombobulated,
  • removed,
  • divagate,
  • repressed,
  • pick nits,
  • dissent,
  • faltering,
  • insufficient,
  • scrupulous,
  • scary,
  • whirl,
  • nervously,
  • hover,
  • equivocate,
  • chug,
  • dainty,
  • inarticulate,
  • unpresuming,
  • fire,
  • chastity,
  • projection,
  • fear,
  • cowering,
  • hesitating,
  • Suspecting,
  • pitch,
  • retract,
  • forbearance,
  • dishonorable,
  • pull,
  • pause,
  • show,
  • tricky,
  • fire at,
  • hesitantly,
  • exam,
  • dismissal,
  • forward pass,
  • shamefacedly,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • reluctant,
  • gee,
  • crouch,
  • protuberance,
  • uncommitted,
  • heave,
  • lose ground,
  • stampede,
  • skulk,
  • hesitate,
  • cowardice,
  • put back,
  • fork,
  • dart,
  • bung,
  • slippery,
  • jittery,
  • partial,
  • agnostic,
  • funk,
  • goosy,
  • retrograde,
  • disinclined,
  • out of,
  • make bones about,
  • avoid,
  • backward,
  • anxiously,
  • ward off,
  • search,
  • swerve,
  • averse,
  • careful,
  • let fly,
  • run away,
  • suspicious,
  • countermarch,
  • go off,
  • project,
  • lateral,
  • hump,
  • loath,
  • sketchy,
  • rehearsal,
  • shove,
  • pull back,
  • wheel,
  • booger,
  • shy at,
  • in doubt,
  • sneak,
  • bereft,
  • wary,
  • wild,
  • voiceless,
  • tight-lipped,
  • fade,
  • prevention,
  • loft,
  • shot-put,
  • toss,
  • poor-spirited,
  • shrivel,
  • hurl,
  • shed,
  • think twice,
  • protrusion,
  • bashfully,
  • reticent,
  • push,
  • delicate,
  • scared,
  • indisposed,
  • inferior,
  • be reluctant,
  • weak-willed,
  • sling,
  • slap,
  • debate,
  • infant,
  • forestalling,
  • Needing,
  • get back,
  • go astray,
  • yaw,
  • void,
  • awfully,
  • short,
  • opprobrious,
  • stumble,
  • shrink from,
  • part,
  • patient,
  • crack,
  • bereft of,
  • vis a tergo,
  • tryout,
  • stray,
  • patchy,
  • fence,
  • elude,
  • apprehensive,
  • ramble,
  • side-step,
  • run back,
  • shunt,
  • slink,
  • retire,
  • come back,
  • diffidently,
  • introvert,
  • untrusting,
  • sceptical,
  • crawl,
  • service,
  • unsocial,
  • in want of,
  • be startled,
  • elusive,
  • dab,
  • haw,
  • startle,
  • loner,
  • obscure,
  • put right,
  • sheepishly,
  • return,
  • shuffle,
  • taciturn,
  • shirk,
  • shift,
  • change,
  • hang off,
  • uneasy,
  • jumpy,
  • conscious,
  • safe,
  • withdraw,
  • tremulous,
  • unresponsive,
  • Boggling,
  • be wary,
  • noninvolvement,
  • defense mechanism,
  • frightened,
  • aloof,
  • baulk,
  • digress,
  • Strain at,
  • flirt,
  • needful,
  • be irresolute,
  • unmanly,
  • scant,
  • take fright,
  • deflect,
  • equivocation,
  • undeveloped,
  • inadequate,
  • eschew,
  • gag,
  • stagger,
  • straggle,
  • be unwilling,
  • humiliation,
  • wince,
  • impulse,
  • narration,
  • fearfully,
  • bear off,
  • timorous,
  • balk,
  • doubting,
  • unambitious,
  • experiment,
  • flip,
  • back off,
  • uncomfortable,
  • cavil,
  • phobic,
  • be cautious,
  • divert,
  • hum and haw,
  • Refraining,
  • immature,
  • shyness,
  • fall back,
  • backwater,
  • mild,
  • demur,
  • thrust,
  • shivery,
  • chickenhearted,
  • vacillant,
  • Self-restrained,
  • unsought,
  • decline,
  • start,
  • lick,
  • send,
  • revert,
  • absent,
  • recessive,
  • turn back,
  • Retrocede,
  • uneager,
  • fly,
  • reclusive,
  • soft,
  • pass,
  • pull away,
  • draw in,
  • slender,
  • astern,
  • embark,
  • fend off,
  • timorously,
  • quibble,
  • release,
  • awkwardly,
  • straddle the fence,
  • propel,
  • drain,
  • draw back,
  • self-effacing,
  • shoot,
  • ejaculate,
  • head off,
  • veer,
  • scruple,
  • deficient,
  • make up for,
  • originate,
  • begin,
  • palter,
  • eremitic,
  • coyly,
  • heedful,
  • secluded,
  • shrink back,
  • slip,
  • hurtle,
  • launch,
  • duck,
  • skittish,
  • lacking,
  • submissive,
  • retiring,
  • undermanned,
  • bankrupt,
  • glance off,
  • shaky,
  • runaway,
  • Shamefast,
  • mousey,
  • be loath,
  • hold back,
  • attempt,
  • sheepish,
  • steer clear of,
  • silent,
  • ashamedly,
  • anxious,
  • overcautious,
  • unassuming,
  • skittery,
  • quiet,
  • sidestep,
  • shyly,
  • fugitive,
  • destitute of,
  • recede,
  • unconfident,
  • hold off,
  • cringe,
  • dubious,
  • stop to consider,
  • serve,
  • sidle,
  • leery,
  • intimidated,
  • fling,
  • wander,
  • escape,
  • Incurve,
  • disreputable,
  • pussyfoot,
  • tensely,
  • yield,
  • skedaddle,
  • evasive,
  • denuded of,
  • unforthcoming,
  • self-doubting,
  • skimpy,
  • double,
  • drift,
  • diverge,
  • under,
  • quail,
  • stick,
  • mousy,
  • go back,
  • antisocial,
  • parry,
  • white feather,
  • confused,
  • trial,
  • bowl,
  • cower,
  • blench,
  • panic,
  • strain,
  • recalcitrant,
  • backtrack,
  • introversive,
  • bulge,
  • experimentation,
  • hedge,
  • turn away from,
  • reel back,
  • commence,
  • split hairs,
  • Qualmish,
  • Unsufficient,
  • gingerly,
  • questioning,
  • defective,
  • mistrustful,
  • chicken,
  • tack,
  • give thought to,
  • examination,
  • self-distrustful,
  • wanting,
  • circumspect,
  • bicker,
  • distrustful,
  • dodge,
  • rebound,
  • uncourageous,
  • shunning,
  • short of,
  • underdeveloped,
  • have qualms,
  • catapult,
  • callow,
  • tilt,
  • chary,
  • runaround,
  • turn tail,
  • ease off,
  • self-conscious,
  • chunk,
  • withdrawing,
  • be watchful,
  • uptight,
  • embarrassed,
  • insecure,
  • prude,
  • scrimpy,
  • pullback,
  • fillip,
  • cagey,
  • fainthearted,
  • in short supply,
  • Startlish,
  • falter,
  • failing,
  • scrappy,
  • Demurring,
  • switch,
  • jump,
  • let go,
  • Vacillatory,
  • hesitatingly,
  • neutrality,
  • back out,
  • hang back,
  • backhanded,
  • low,
  • shrink,
  • Tralineate,
  • hem and haw,
  • restrained,
  • whack,
  • fallback,
  • beat about,
  • stab,
  • turn away,
  • bland,
  • shy away,
  • irresolutely,
  • worried,
  • unassured,
  • shun,
  • put,
  • screwball,
  • nitpick,
  • self-controlled,
  • skittishly,
  • stick at,
  • devoid of,
  • lowly,
  • chuck,
  • curve,
  • peg,
  • affliction,
  • overmodest,
  • avert,
  • Unconspicuous,
  • hark back,
  • lob,
  • trigger-happy,
  • spitball,
  • void of,
  • throw,
  • mum,
  • faint-hearted,
  • timidity,
  • affected,
  • shy of,
  • embarrassedly,
  • introverted,
  • set free,
  • chicken-livered,
  • crawfish,
  • trepidant,
  • Unattempted,
  • test,
  • abashed,
  • effeminate,
  • skeptical,
  • throw out,
  • in a tizzy,
  • trembling,
  • jib,
  • spring back,
  • hypoplastic,
  • Regrade,
  • fastball,
  • faint,
  • nit-pick,
  • snap,
  • standoffish,
  • cautious,
  • jerk,
  • incomplete,
  • inhibited,
  • fearsome,
  • coming up short,
  • Fearing,
  • side,
  • circumvention,
  • testing,
  • ashamed,
  • shot,
  • rabbity,
  • craven,
  • ill at ease,
  • balance,
  • squeamish,
  • zigzag,
  • scarce,
  • turn aside,
  • blink,
  • discharge,
  • withdrawn,
  • deprived of,
  • recoil,
  • lance,
  • evade,
  • mortification,
  • nervous,
  • cast,
  • pullout,
  • sidetrack,
  • elusion,
  • compensate for,
  • boggle,
  • fight shy of,
  • guarded,
  • indrawn,
  • canny,
  • draw aside,
  • deferential,
  • make amends,
  • bilk,
  • coward,
  • propulsion,
  • pitchfork,
  • glance,
  • ejection,
  • timidly,
  • devoid,
  • put about,
  • scanty,
  • sheer off,
  • ebb,
  • stickle,
  • unsociable,
  • dwindle,
  • waver,
  • tergiversate,
  • in arrears,
  • spiritless,
  • in default,
  • twist,
  • evasion,
  • effort,
  • awkward,
  • pusillanimous,
  • sinker,
  • pelt,
  • panicky,
  • think twice about,
  • avoidance,
  • Avoiding,
  • let fly at,
  • watchful,
  • pull out,
  • doubtful,
  • uneasily,
  • shove aside,
  • blushing,
  • edgily,
  • incertain,
  • prevaricate,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • weasel out,
  • modesty,
  • back away,
  • lost,
  • beg the question,
  • fly off,
  • pot,
  • missing,
  • gutless,
  • wind,
  • mistrusting.

Antonyms for Shy:

• adj.

  • all
    confident.
  • quiet and self-conscious
    eager, immodest, egotistical, willing, inclined, courageous, fearless, unabashed, conceited, heedless, rash, unworried, disposed, uncareful, adequate, enough, incautious, careless, confident, unafraid, unreserved, unshy, proud, calm, indiscreet, aggressive, outgoing, forward, unashamed, Unfearful, extroverted, bent, sufficient, bold, brave.
  • Other antonyms:
    hefty, undeterred, super, lavish, forceful, heroic, approved, moral, king-size, boon, creditable, commendable, large, upright, endorsed, correct, largish, outgoing, clean, good, legal, plenteous, tolerable, enlarged, noble, adequate, game, unswerving, prestigious, satisfactory, unflinching, principled, considerable, social, companionable, convivial, bounteous, sizable, seemly, luxuriant, decent, upstanding, permissible, honest, righteous, proper, determined, exemplary, spunky, permitted, reputable, respectable, esteemed, honorable, plucky, copious, authorized, oversize, overflowing, respected, bountiful, reputed, licensed, extroverted, just, ethical, clubbable, spirited, expanded, substantial, teeming, mettlesome, rich, firm, gregarious, jumbo, big, sociable, guiltless, liberal, resolute, sanctioned, abundant, blameless, generous, enough, abounding, ample, plentiful, decorous, immodest.

Homophones for Shy:

• sick joke, succuss, sauk, she-oak, say, saucy, sheika, sus, schizaea, squasy, shah, shoe, sago, sic, scow, sass, 1830s, shaky, see, sissy, suez, sousa, swiz, sheesha, soya, sis, siss, sissu, shikoku, sika, soho, sise, 1890s, Swiss Cheese, shuha, SSA, shoes, Swaggie, sock, shia, soakage, 1760s, sikh, squawk, 1970s, sa, sausage, suck, sky-high, shock, Susa, sequoya, sea ash, ski wax, sky, sou, 1980s, shack, soy sauce, so-so, swage, si, shuck, 1920s, siege, showcase, 1870s, 1770s, shako, sissyish, 1840s, SSS, squawky, schweiz, shua, scag, 1790s, scoke, sash, Sacajawea, sax, sexy, shew, shay, skeg, sow, sigeh, squashy, ski, SG, shush, sag, swosh, 1940s, souse, sos, sea, segue, sugi, scouse, skyway, swiss, seize, six, sequoia, sue, seaquake, shiksa, sussex, 1950s, seek, sewage, Seiji Ozawa, 1960s, sough, 1860s, sse, S, showy, squash, swazi, swishy, sashay, 1900s, ssw, swig, SAS, 1850s, 1880s, 1990s, souk, sess, sagacious, skew, suisse, succus, sage, schizaeaceae, schuss, 1930s, Skag, squeaky, saxe, sickish, socage, 1780s, sassy, sioux, swish, 1820s, Shai, Sousse, seiche, segway, squeeze, squish, soja, sex, swoosh, seasick, syzygy, skyhook, shaggy, so, Skaw, soggy, sizz, sec, shaw, shoji, sc, sea cow, squeak, squishy, 1750s, shiah, shwa, shoo away, sigh, such, sac, saw, squeegee, sew, saki, shikse, sacco, swag, soy, shag, sheikha, squaw, sacque, saga, shoo, sw, sheik, swash, succos, shogi, shake, show, shucks, shisha, sacagawea, size, sick, success, soak, say-so, se, sake, Susah, sequoyah, sauce, saiga, skyjack, skua, sack, ss, sukiyaki, saek, sheikh, shook, sushi, sway, 1530s, schwa, skagway, soh, sockeye, sissoo, scsi, seesaw, seaway.

Hyponym for Shy:

• n.

  • act
    throw.

• v.

  • contact
    throw.
  • motion
    start, startle, jump.