sheepish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sheep=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

sheepish, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to sheep.  [1913 Webster]
•  Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.  [1913 Webster]

  "Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sheepish, adj.
1 bashful, shy, reticent.
2 embarrassed through shame.

Derivative

sheepishly adv. sheepishness n.

THESAURUS

sheepish

abject, amenable, apologetic, asinine, blushful, blushing, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, compliant, contrite, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, docile, embarrassed, equestrian, equine, flushed, goatish, goatlike, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, humble, humbled, manipulable, meek, melted, mulish, obedient, ovine, passive, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piggish, pliable, red, repentant, ruddy, ruminant, shamefaced, sheeplike, softened, swinish, timid, touched, tractable, ungulate, withdrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

sheepish

Modesty

N modesty, humility, diffidence, timidity, retiring disposition, unobtrusiveness, bashfulness, mauvaise honte, blush, blushing, verecundity, self-knowledge, reserve, constraint, demureness, blushing honors, modest, diffident, humble, timid, timorous, bashful, shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest, unpretending, unpretentious, unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful, unaspiring, poor in spirit, out of countenance, reserved, constrained, demure, humbly, quietly, privately, without ceremony, without beat of drum, sans fa, not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty, thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.