What is another word for "shy"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "shy": aloof, and, background, bashful, bashfulness, beat, belief, believe, blush, blushing, bushel, candle, cast, ceremony, constrained, constraint, countenance, coy, cynic, cynical, cynicism, deaf, demure, demureness, diffidence, diffident, disbelieve, disposed, disposition, distance, distrust, distrustful, doubt, draw, drum, ear, eye, face, faith, fame.

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