Emotions
Synonyms for bashful
The synonym for bashful recorded in this bank is shy, in the sense "shy and easily embarrassed in company". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for bashful
- shyadjective, in the sense "shy and easily embarrassed in company"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for bashful.
shy and easily embarrassed in company
The bashful boy hid behind his mother's legs when the guests arrived.
The true synonym
shy
Same sentence, swapped: The shy boy hid behind his mother's legs when the guests arrived.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- confident
- rude
- cheerful
Where bashful turns up in the game
bashful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bashful is the trap
- boastfuladjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is cocky, in the sense "excessively proud of one's own achievements, often speaking about them at length", with bashful sitting one tile away.
- unfriendlyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is hostile, in the sense "very unfavorable to life or growth", with bashful sitting one tile away.
- mousyadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is mousey, in the sense "of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse", and bashful is on the board beside it.
Play bashful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bashful reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because emotions is the company bashful keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bashful carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.