Antonyms for sheepish


Grammar : Adj
Spell : shee-pish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃi pɪʃ


Definition of sheepish

Origin :
  • c.1200, "resembling a sheep" in some perceived characteristic, from sheep + -ish. The sense of "bashful, over-modest, awkward among strangers" first is recorded 1690s. Related: Sheepishly; sheepishness. Old English had sceaplic "of a sheep, 'sheep-ly.'"
  • adj shy, embarrassed
Example sentences :
  • I ain't more 'n half a man when she's round, she makes me feel so sheepish.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • And who would have suspected so very fierce a wolf under so sheepish an outside?
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • I ain't more'n half a man when she's round, she makes me feel so sheepish.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • He handed the assortment to Miss Thomas with a sheepish grin.
  • Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely
  • He swings me around facin' her, and I expect I must have acted some sheepish.
  • Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford
  • As he was leaving, Redcar spoke to him in rather a sheepish way.
  • Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade
  • Then with a sheepish laugh Frederik abruptly changed the subject.
  • Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco
  • They stuck close together, with terrified and sheepish glances at each other.
  • Extract from : « The Huntress » by Hulbert Footner
  • The doctor, taken by surprise, awkward and sheepish, knelt too.
  • Extract from : « The Trembling of a Leaf » by William Somerset Maugham
  • Mark was sheepish, at first, but Phyllis put him at his ease in no time.
  • Extract from : « Old Valentines » by Munson Aldrich Havens

Synonyms for sheepish

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