<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>bashful; retiring.</li><li>easily frightened away; timid.</li><li>suspicious, distrustful, or wary (often used in combination).</li><li>reluctant.</li><li>deficient.</li><li>short of a full amount or number; scant.</li><li>not bearing or breeding freely, as plants or animals.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to start back or aside, as in fear.</li><li>to draw back; recoil.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a sudden start aside, as in fear.</li></ul>