What does shy person mean?

shy person means "someone who shrinks from familiarity with others".

What is another word for shy person?

Close synonyms include shrinking violet. 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 shy person a common word?

shy person 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.

shy person — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

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

1.
someone who shrinks from familiarity with others
Synonymsshrinking violet
Broadercoward
Narrowerwallflower

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What does shy person mean?: shy person means "someone who shrinks from familiarity with others".
What is another word for shy person?: Close synonyms include shrinking violet. 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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