What word is the opposite of shy

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. shynoun

   Antonyms:
   brazen, bold, audacious

2. shynoun

   Easily frightened; timid.

   a shy bird.

   Antonyms:
   bold, audacious, brazen

3. shyverb

   Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.

   coconut shy

   Antonyms:
   brazen, bold, audacious

4. shyadjective

   Cautious; wary; suspicious.

   Antonyms:
   brazen, audacious, bold

5. shyadjective

   Antonyms:
   audacious, bold, brazen

6. shyadjective

   Antonyms:
   brazen, bold, audacious

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. shy

   Antonyms:
   bold, brazen-faced, impudent, audacious, reckless

   Synonyms:
   timid, reserved, modest, bashful, suspicion, shrinking, chary

Princeton’s WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shyadjective

   a quick throw

   «he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman»

   Antonyms:
   sufficient, unwary

2. diffident, shy, timid, unsureadjective

   lacking self-confidence

   «stood in the doorway diffident and abashed»; «problems that call for bold not timid responses»; «a very unsure young man»

   Antonyms:
   sufficient, unwary

   Synonyms:
   diffident, faint, shy(p), fainthearted, faint-hearted, timid, uncertain, unsure, incertain

3. shy(p)adjective

   short

   «eleven is one shy of a dozen»

   Antonyms:
   sufficient, unwary

4. shyverb

   wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things

   «shy of strangers»

   Antonyms:
   unwary, sufficient

   Synonyms:
   shy(p), timid, diffident, unsure

5. shyverb

   start suddenly, as from fright

   Antonyms:
   unwary, sufficient

6. shyverb

   throw quickly

   Antonyms:
   unwary, sufficient

How to use shy in a sentence?

1. Marcel Aubut:

   Such is the momentum of what happened here in Toronto. This is the momentum that should help us, the IOC likes when the people support Olympic Games. They love The IOC. I am not shy to say those Games( Toronto Pan Ams) became Olympic Games.

2. De Blasio:

   This is what they do. They build. I’ll give them dormitories( to) build temporary medical facilities, but they have to do it, i’m not shy but the state doesn’t have the capacity to build that quickly to that level.

3. Vladlen Tatarsky:

   Sit here or here. Sit over on the chair, i’ll sit over there. I am too shy.

4. Clifford Villanueva Villalon:

   If you don’t see the stars at night, close your eyes. Stars are shy showing up sometimes because not all people on earth look at them as an inspiration to move forward, but only as decorations.

5. President Barack Obama:

   I want us to be able, when we walk out this door, to say we couldn’t think of anything else that we didn’t try to do. That we didn’t shy away from a challenge because it was hard. That we weren’t timid or got tired or somehow thinking about the next thing, because there is no next thing, this is it.

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