What does shrinking violet mean?

shrinking violet means "someone who shrinks from familiarity with others".

What is another word for shrinking violet?

Close synonyms include shy person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shrinking violet a common word?

shrinking violet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Shrinking violet — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
someone who shrinks from familiarity with others
Synonymsshy person
Broadercoward
Narrowerwallflower

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What does shrinking violet mean?: shrinking violet means "someone who shrinks from familiarity with others".
What is another word for shrinking violet?: Close synonyms include shy person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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