adj.

shy; bashful (shy • a bashful girl; a bashful smile); blushing; blushful; diffident; self-conscious (too easily becoming shy or embarrassed when in the presence of others • She'll never be a good teacher – she's too self-conscious); shamefaced; retiring (shy • a very quiet, retiring person); backward; gawky (о человеке); sheepish; trembly; blate; maidenlike; milk-toast; unassertive; verecund; willyard; shrinking; maidenly; willyart; shame-faced (Anglophile); sheep-faced (Anglophile); little band (sanek); chary; milk toast; selfconscious (Eduard Mining); coy ((pretending to be) shy • I had not enterprise or impudence enough to venture from my concealment; indeed, I felt like an arrant poacher, until I read one or two of Ovid's Metamorphoses, when I pictured myself as some sylvan deity, and she a coy wood nymph of whom I was in pursuit.. (Washington Irving); She gave her brother's friend a coy smile); humble; ovine; hindwards; timid; socially awkward (контекстуальный перевод Ремедиос_П); meticulous; mealy mouthed; offish; feel reluctant; self-effacing (indicates discomfort in social situations Taras)

prudish (конт. = излишне скромный)

aw-shucks (shy • an aw-shucks grin Val_Ships)

coy (особ. о девушке)