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# bashful

«bashful» in Mova's school dictionary: **shy and easily embarrassed, not wanting to be looked at…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (bashfuller, bashfullest; more bashful, most bashful)

### meaning for a pupil

Bashful means shy and easily embarrassed, not wanting to be looked at or to speak in front of others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bashful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, describes a shy person or an object that will not speak up, often to make a funny point.

### examples

- The bashful girl hid behind her mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bashful/#x1)
- He went red when they praised him, he was so bashful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bashful/#x2)
- The bashful puppy would not come out from under the bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bashful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bashful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bashful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.