Synonyms for sheepishness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : shee-pish |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃi pɪʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for sheepishness
- backwardness
- diffidence
- docility
- doubt
- fawning
- fear
- hesitation
- humility
- inferiority complex
- kittenishness
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- mousiness
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reluctance
- reservation
- reserve
- resignation
- restraint
- retiringness
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- self-consciousness
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timidness
- timorousness
- unassertiveness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
Définition of sheepishness
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.'"
- As in bashfulness : noun modesty
- As in shyness : noun bashfulness
- As in coyness : noun shyness
- As in retiringness : noun shyness
- As in timidness : noun shyness
- As in diffidence : noun hesitancy; lack of confidence
- As in humility : noun humbleness, modesty
- Their expressions ran the gamut from sheepishness to blank haughtiness.
- Extract from : « Adaptation » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- But my sheepishness has gone, and I tell you I'll have you whether you will or no.
- Extract from : « Rhoda Fleming, Complete » by George Meredith
- (to the child, who was convulsed with mirth and sheepishness).
- Extract from : « Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories » by Bret Harte
- The very thought of it undoes me—with an absolute shock of sheepishness.
- Extract from : « The Return » by Walter de la Mare
- The look gradually changed from one of wonderment to one of sheepishness.
- Extract from : « The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass » by Allen Chapman
- The four original participants of the rumpus resumed their places in various stages of sheepishness.
- Extract from : « Mercenary » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- "And that's the one thing I can't do," Banks admitted; and Bundy could not detect that any part of his sheepishness was feigned.
- Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
- He was bowing with an effect of increasing strain and the intensity of his sheepishness becoming painful to contemplate.
- Extract from : « Turns about Town » by Robert Cortes Holliday
- While we men, taking blushes for a sign of guilt or sheepishness, are equally studious to suppress them.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Angèle was quite unembarrassed and promptly rescued both boys from sheepishness.
- Extract from : « The Revellers » by Louis Tracy
Antonyms for sheepishness
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