The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TIMID which also is the latest solution we found used in Universal uClick in 2022.
Shy crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TIMID | 36 % | 5 |
| COY | 14 % | 3 |
| SHORT | 11 % | 5 |
| RETICENT | 8 % | 8 |
| DEMURE | 6 % | 6 |
| RETIRING | 6 % | 8 |
| BASHFUL | 6 % | 7 |
| START | 3 % | 5 |
| MODEST | 3 % | 6 |
| SHRINK | 3 % | 6 |
| WANTING | 3 % | 7 |
| BALK | 3 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shy
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- timid
- diffident
- deficient
- insufficient
- unsure
- unconfident
- wary
- bashful
- coy
- skittish
- afraid
- frightened
Crossword Answer definitions
TIMID adjective- Lacking in courage or confidence.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result TIMID
- Edgy
- Apprehensive
- Fainthearted
- Intrepid's antithesis
- Chicken
- Diffident
- Mousy
- Hardly heroic
- Easily alarmed
- Unassertive
More clues leading to the result COY
- Affectedly shy
- Quaintly shy
- Playing hard to get
- Playfully innocent
- Demure
- Far from forward
- Shy
- Flirtatiously shy
- Hard to pin down
- Affectedly demure
More clues leading to the result SHORT
- Comedian Martin ___
- Wiring problem
- Strapped for cash
- Knee-high to a grasshopper
- Funnyman Martin
- Lacking a quorum
- Like some tempers
- Lacking sufficient funds
- Unlike a shaggy-dog story
- Word before bread or cake
More clues leading to the result RETICENT
- Not very talkative
- Untalkative
- Close-mouthed
- Shy
- Not inclined to speak
- Self-effacing
- Balky
- Not talkative
- Indisposed to talk.
- Uncommunicative.
More clues leading to the result DEMURE
More clues leading to the result RETIRING
More clues leading to the result BASHFUL
- Sleepy companion
- *Painfully shy
- One of the Seven Dwarfs.
- Happy's brother
- One of Doc's companions
- Shy
- Quick to blush
- Blushing
- Given to blushing
- Grumpy cohort
More clues leading to the result START
- Kick off
- Square one
- Begin
- Open
- Set in motion
- Appropriate word here?
- Hit the trail
- Select neighbor, on old controllers
- Instructions, part 3
- Set moving
More clues leading to the result MODEST
- Humble composer reinterpreted by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, familiarly (6)
- Not liable to crow
- Understated
- Unostentatious
- Not at all vain
- Unassuming
- Shy
- Hardly extravagant
- Demure
- Not pretentious
More clues leading to the result SHRINK
- His clients frequently lie
- Get smaller
- Psychologist, slangily
- Head doctor
- Psychiatrist
- What pupils do in bright light
- Downsize
- Analyst
- Draw up
- Reduce in size