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Exact Match:

shy

a quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"

wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"

easily startled or frightened

throw quickly

start suddenly, as from fight

Synonyms:

• Pyrrhonic,
• about the bush,
• afraid,
• agnostic,
• apprehensive,
• around the bush,
• arrested,
• averse,
• avert,
• avoid,
• back down,
• backhanded,
• backward,
• balance,
• balk,
• bankrupt in,
• bare of,
• bashful,
• be startled,
• bear off,
• beat about,
• beat around,
• beg the question,
• bereft of,
• bicker,
• bilk,
• blench,
• blink,
• boggle,
• boggling,
• bowl,
• cagey,
• callow,
• cast,
• cast at,
• catapult,
• cautious,
• cavil,
• chary,
• choplogic,
• chuck,
• chuck at,
• chunk,
• circumspect,
• confused,
• conscious,
• cowardly,
• coy,
• cringe,
• dart,
• dash,
• debate,
• defective,
• deficient,
• deliberate,
• demur,
• demure,
• demurring,
• denuded of,
• deprived of,
• destitute of,
• devoid of,
• diffident,
• distrustful,
• dodge,
• double,
• doubtful,
• doubting,
• draw aside,
• draw back,
• draw in,
• dubious,
• duck,
• ease off,
• edge off,
• elude,
• embryonic,
• empty of,
• equivocate,
• eschew,
• evade,
• evade the issue,
• fade,
• failing,
• fall back,
• falter,
• faltering,
• fear,
• fearful,
• fearing,
• fearsome,
• fence,
• fight shy,
• fight shy of,
• fire,
• fire at,
• flinch,
• fling,
• fling at,
• flip,
• fly off,
• for want of,
• fork,
• forlorn of,
• from Missouri,
• gag,
• gee,
• glance,
• glance off,
• go off,
• goosy,
• hang back,
• hang off,
• have qualms,
• haw,
• head off,
• heave,
• heave at,
• hedge,
• hem and haw,
• hesitant,
• hesitate,
• hesitating,
• hold off,
• hover,
• hum and haw,
• hurl,
• hurl against,
• hurl at,
• hurtle,
• hypoplastic,
• immature,
• in arrear,
• in arrears,
• in default,
• in default of,
• in doubt,
• in fear,
• in short supply,
• in want of,
• inadequate,
• inarticulate,
• incomplete,
• indisposed,
• infant,
• insufficient,
• introversive,
• introvert,
• introverted,
• jerk,
• jib,
• jump,
• jump a mile,
• jumpy,
• lacking,
• lance,
• launch,
• leery,
• let fly,
• let fly at,
• loath,
• lob,
• make bones about,
• make way for,
• missing,
• mistrustful,
• mistrusting,
• modest,
• mousy,
• move aside,
• mystify,
• needing,
• nervous,
• nitpick,
• obscure,
• out of,
• out of pocket,
• palter,
• panic,
• parry,
• part,
• partial,
• pass,
• patchy,
• pause,
• peg,
• pelt,
• pick nits,
• pitch,
• pitchfork,
• ponder,
• pot,
• prevaricate,
• pull away,
• pull back,
• pull in,
• pull out,
• pussyfoot,
• put,
• put off,
• put the shot,
• quail,
• qualmish,
• questioning,
• quibble,
• rabbity,
• recoil,
• reel back,
• reluctant,
• reserved,
• retiring,
• retract,
• retreat,
• scant,
• scant of,
• scanty,
• scarce,
• scary,
• scrappy,
• scruple,
• scrupulous,
• self-conscious,
• self-distrustful,
• self-effacing,
• serve,
• shaky,
• shamefaced,
• shamefast,
• sheepish,
• sheer off,
• shift,
• shift off,
• shilly-shally,
• shivery,
• short,
• short of,
• shove aside,
• shrink,
• shrink back,
• shrinking,
• shuffle,
• shun,
• shunt,
• shy at,
• shy away,
• shy of,
• shy off,
• side,
• sidestep,
• sideswipe,
• sidetrack,
• sidle,
• skedaddle,
• skeptical,
• sketchy,
• skittery,
• skittish,
• sling,
• sling at,
• snap,
• split hairs,
• squeamish,
• stammering,
• stampede,
• start,
• start aside,
• start back,
• startle,
• startlish,
• steer clear of,
• step aside,
• stick,
• stick at,
• stickle,
• stickling,
• stop to consider,
• straddle the fence,
• strain,
• strain at,
• stumble,
• suspecting,
• suspicious,
• swerve,
• switch,
• tergiversate,
• think twice about,
• throw,
• throw at,
• tilt,
• timid,
• timorous,
• toss,
• toss at,
• trembling,
• tremulous,
• trepidant,
• trigger-happy,
• turn aside,
• turn away,
• turn back,
• unassertive,
• unassured,
• unblessed with,
• uncertain,
• underdeveloped,
• undeveloped,
• uneager,
• unpossessed of,
• untrusting,
• unwilling,
• veer off,
• void of,
• wanting,
• ward off,
• wary,
• waver,
• weasel,
• weasel out,
• wince,
• withdraw,
• yield