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shy
 
Adjective shy has 4 senses
  1. diffident, shy, timid, unsure - lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
    Antonym: confident (indirect, via unconfident)
  2. shy - easily startled or frightened
    Antonym:     bold (indirect, via timid)
  3. shy - short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen"
    Antonym:     sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
  4. shy - wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"
    Antonym:     unwary (indirect, via wary)
Noun shy has 1 sense
  1. shy - a quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"
    --1 is a kind of     throw
    Derived form: verb shy2
Verb shy has 2 senses
  1. shy - start suddenly, as from fight
    --1 is one way to     startle, jump, start
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
  2. shy - throw quickly
    --2 is one way to     throw
    Derived form: noun shy1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
shwa shwa in newspaper shwa sound in the word newspaper shwaba shwashbuckling shweger shweter shwoos shy shy away from shy person shyam shyama shying shylock shyls shyly

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