
Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): shyness, shy, shyly
Xem thêm: diffident, timid, unsure, shy(p)
shy adj.
VERBS be, feel, look, seem, sound Please don't be shy?I won't eat you! | become, get, go, grow
ADV. desperately, excessively, extremely, painfully, terribly, very As a teenager I was painfully shy. | all She went all shy and hid behind her mother. | almost | a bit, fairly, a little, quite, rather, slightly, somewhat | naturally He is a naturally shy, retiring man. | chronically
PREP. of I was a bit shy of them at first. | with You don't have to be shy with me, you know.
n.
he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman
v.
adj.
stood in the doorway diffident and abashed
problems that call for bold not timid responses
a very unsure young man
eleven is one shy of a dozen
shy of strangers