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Unobtrusive vs Bashful - What's the difference?

unobtrusive | bashful | Related terms |

Unobtrusive is a related term of bashful.


As adjectives the difference between unobtrusive and bashful

is that unobtrusive is not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous while bashful is inclined to avoid notice.

unobtrusive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.
  • *
  • Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

    bashful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bashfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rfc-sense) inclined to avoid notice
  • reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
  • Synonyms

    * shy * See also