Related Words:
- bashful
collapse - disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
- self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound related words >
- Olympian,
- abashed,
- aloof,
- autistic,
- awkward,
- backward,
- blank,
- blushful,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- close,
- cold,
- confused,
- conscious,
- constrained,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- demure,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- dissociable,
- distant,
- embarrassed,
- expressionless,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- icy,
- ill at ease,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in a tizzy,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- inarticulate,
- incompatible,
- insociable,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- meek,
- modest,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- nongregarious,
- offish,
- qualmish,
- rabbity,
- recoiling,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- scary,
- scrupulous,
- self-conscious,
- self-contained,
- self-effacing,
- self-sufficient,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- sheepish,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- squeamish,
- stammering,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- sullen,
- suppressed,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unassertive,
- unassuming,
- unassured,
- unclubbable,
- uncomfortable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- unconfident,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- uneasy,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unostentatious,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn
- Bohemian,
- affable,
- arcadian,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- bucolic,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- casual,
- cordial,
- degage,
- dinkum,
- direct,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- familiar,
- folksy,
- following the letter,
- free and easy,
- genuine,
- good,
- gracious,
- guileless,
- haymish,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homey,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- humble,
- inartificial,
- informal,
- irregular,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- loose,
- lowly,
- meek,
- modest,
- native,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- naturelike,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- original,
- pastoral,
- plain,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- relaxed,
- rightful,
- rural,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sociable,
- sterling,
- straightforward,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unambitious,
- unartificial,
- unaspiring,
- unassumed,
- unbeguileful,
- unbeguiling,
- unboastful,
- uncalculating,
- unceremonious,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- unconstrained,
- unconventional,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeceitful,
- undeceiving,
- undeceptive,
- undesigning,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulated,
- undissimulating,
- undistorted,
- unembellished,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- unimposing,
- uninvented,
- unobtrusive,
- unofficial,
- unostentatious,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unspoiled,
- unstudied,
- unsynthetic,
- untrimmed,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word
- pushover
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- someone who is easily taken advantage of related words >
- Cadmean victory,
- KO,
- Milquetoast,
- Pyrrhic victory,
- ascendancy,
- babe,
- baby,
- big baby,
- boob,
- breeze,
- championship,
- chicken,
- chump,
- cinch,
- cipher,
- conquest,
- credulous person,
- crybaby,
- cull,
- doormat,
- duck,
- dud,
- dull tool,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- easy target,
- easy thing,
- easy victory,
- fall guy,
- fish,
- fool,
- gobe-mouches,
- grand slam,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- gutless wonder,
- hollow man,
- innocent,
- invertebrate,
- jackstraw,
- jellyfish,
- knockout,
- landslide,
- landslide victory,
- lay figure,
- lead-pipe cinch,
- leadpipe cinch,
- lightweight,
- man of straw,
- mastery,
- meek soul,
- milksop,
- mollycoddle,
- monkey,
- moral victory,
- mug,
- namby-pamby,
- nebbish,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- patsy,
- picnic,
- pie,
- piece of cake,
- pigeon,
- pipe,
- plaything,
- prize sap,
- puppet,
- runaway victory,
- sad sack,
- sap,
- saphead,
- schlemiel,
- setup,
- sinecure,
- sissy,
- sitting duck,
- snap,
- soft touch,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- stooge,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- success,
- sucker,
- sure thing,
- thing of naught,
- total victory,
- toy,
- trifle,
- triumph,
- trusting soul,
- velvet,
- victim,
- victory,
- walkaway,
- walkover,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- win,
- winning,
- winning streak,
- zero
- sissy
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- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive related words >
- Lord Fauntleroy,
- Milquetoast,
- Percy,
- afraid,
- aunt,
- auntie,
- baby,
- big baby,
- blood brother,
- brethren,
- brother,
- bub,
- bubba,
- bud,
- buddy,
- chicken,
- chicken liver,
- chickenhearted,
- country cousin,
- cousin,
- cousin once removed,
- cousin twice removed,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- cream puff,
- crybaby,
- daughter,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- doormat,
- dull tool,
- effeminate,
- epicene,
- fainthearted,
- father,
- fearful,
- first cousin,
- foster brother,
- fraid-cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- frater,
- funk,
- funker,
- funking,
- funky,
- goody-goody,
- grandnephew,
- grandniece,
- granduncle,
- great-aunt,
- great-uncle,
- gutless wonder,
- half brother,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jellyfish,
- kid brother,
- lightweight,
- lily,
- lily liver,
- lily-livered,
- meek soul,
- milk-livered,
- milksop,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mollycoddle,
- mother,
- mouse,
- mousy,
- muliebrous,
- namby-pamby,
- nance,
- nancy,
- nebbish,
- nephew,
- niece,
- nonentity,
- nuncle,
- nunks,
- nunky,
- old woman,
- old-womanish,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- pigeonhearted,
- prissy,
- pushover,
- rabbity,
- sad sack,
- scaredy-cat,
- second cousin,
- sis,
- sissified,
- sissyish,
- sister,
- sister-german,
- sistern,
- soft,
- softling,
- softy,
- son,
- sop,
- stepbrother,
- stepsister,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unc,
- uncle,
- uncs,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- uterine brother,
- weak,
- weak sister,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- weakling,
- wet,
- white feather,
- white liver,
- white-livered,
- womanish,
- yellow
- mild
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- moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism" related words >
- Saturnian,
- accepting,
- aestival,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- balmy,
- benign,
- benignant,
- bland,
- blood-hot,
- blood-warm,
- bonhomous,
- bright,
- broken,
- calid,
- calm,
- calming,
- chastened,
- choice,
- clement,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- conciliatory,
- cordial,
- dainty,
- dead,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demulcent,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- docile,
- domesticated,
- dovelike,
- easy,
- easy-natured,
- easygoing,
- emollient,
- equable,
- equatorial,
- exquisite,
- fade,
- faint,
- fair,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- forbearant,
- forbearing,
- forgiving,
- genial,
- gentle,
- good-humored,
- good-natured,
- good-tempered,
- gruelly,
- halcyon,
- housebroken,
- humane,
- humble,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- indulgent,
- inoffensive,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- judicious,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lamblike,
- lax,
- lenient,
- lenitive,
- luke,
- lukewarm,
- meek,
- mellow,
- mellowy,
- merciful,
- mild as milk,
- milk-and-water,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mollified,
- mollifying,
- nonresistive,
- nonrigid,
- nonviolent,
- obeisant,
- obliging,
- pacific,
- pacifistic,
- pappy,
- passive,
- patient,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- placid,
- pleasant,
- prudent,
- pulpy,
- quiet,
- room-temperature,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- serene,
- smooth,
- sober,
- soft,
- soft as putty,
- softened,
- softening,
- soothing,
- spiceless,
- stale,
- subdued,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- subtropical,
- summery,
- sunny,
- sunshiny,
- sweet,
- sweet-tempered,
- tame,
- tamed,
- tasteless,
- temperate,
- tender,
- tepid,
- thermal,
- thermic,
- thin,
- toasty,
- tolerant,
- tractable,
- tranquil,
- tropical,
- unassuming,
- unflavored,
- unfrozen,
- unsavory,
- vapid,
- warm,
- warm as toast,
- warmish,
- washy,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- well-natured,
- whisper-soft,
- wishy-washy,
- yielding
- compliant
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- disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will" related words >
- abject,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquiescing,
- active,
- adaptable,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- adjusting,
- affable,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- agreeing,
- alacritous,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- appliable,
- applicable,
- approving,
- ardent,
- assentatious,
- assenting,
- bendable,
- bending,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- complying,
- conceding,
- concessive,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- constant,
- content,
- cooperative,
- decent,
- devoted,
- devout,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- elastic,
- endorsing,
- enthusiastic,
- exploitable,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fain,
- faithful,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- forward,
- game,
- generous,
- giving,
- gracious,
- humble,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- law-abiding,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- loyal,
- malleable,
- manipulable,
- meek,
- meticulous,
- minded,
- mindful,
- moldable,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nothing loath,
- obedient,
- obliging,
- observant,
- operable,
- other-directed,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- practical,
- practicing,
- predisposed,
- prompt,
- prone,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- quick,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receptive,
- reconciled,
- regardful,
- resigned,
- responsive,
- reusable,
- sanctioning,
- scrupulous,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- servile,
- shapable,
- springy,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- true,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- usable,
- utilizable,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- whippy,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- willowy,
- yielding,
- zealous
- Milquetoast,
- baby,
- banal,
- bathetic,
- bathos,
- beery,
- betwixt and between,
- big baby,
- bland,
- bleeding heart,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- cloying,
- cloyingness,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crybaby,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- doormat,
- driveling,
- dull,
- dull tool,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- flat,
- flimsy,
- formalistic,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- goo,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- gooey,
- gossamery,
- gushing,
- gutless wonder,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- innocuous,
- insipid,
- invertebrate,
- jejune,
- jellyfish,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lackluster,
- light,
- lightweight,
- maudlin,
- maudlinness,
- mawkish,
- mawkishness,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- meek soul,
- middling,
- milk-and-water,
- milksop,
- mincing,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mollycoddle,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- mushy,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nebbish,
- nonentity,
- nostalgia,
- nostalgic,
- nostomania,
- nostomanic,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- oversentimentalized,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- papery,
- passable,
- pasteboardy,
- pedantic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puny,
- puristic,
- pushover,
- respectable,
- romantic,
- romanticism,
- sad sack,
- sapless,
- sappy,
- sentiment,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- sentimentalized,
- shattery,
- simpering,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- sloppy,
- slush,
- so-so,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- soft,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- sticky,
- sweetness and light,
- tacky,
- tear-jerking,
- tearjerker,
- teary,
- tedious,
- tolerable,
- unsubstantial,
- vapid,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- wishy-washy,
- wispy,
- womanish
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