All sheepish synonyms
sheep·ish
S s adj sheepish
- in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- convictable — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- ashamed — If someone is ashamed, they feel embarrassed or guilty because of something they do or they have done, or because of their appearance.
- modest — having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- bashful — Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- guilty — having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
- diffident — lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- aflutter — in or into a nervous or excited state
- hangdog — browbeaten; defeated; intimidated; abject: He always went about with a hangdog look.
noun sheepish
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- humility — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- diffidence — the quality or state of being diffident.
- kittenishness — The state or condition of being kittenish.
- fawning — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- nonresistance — the policy or practice of not resisting violence or established authority, even when tyrannical, by force.
- obsequiousness — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- mousiness — The property of being mousy.
- docility — easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
- coyness — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
adjective sheepish
- humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbled — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- accusable — having liability to be blamed or accused