Usually means: Shy, modest, easily embarrassed nature.
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  1. verecund: Collins English Dictionary
  2. verecund: Wordnik
  3. verecund: Wiktionary
  4. verecund: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Verecund, verecund: Dictionary.com
  6. Verecund: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. verecund: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Verecund: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. verecund: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. verecund: FreeDictionary.org
  11. verecund: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. verecund: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Verecund: World Wide Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (verecund)

▸ adjective:  (rare, literary, poetic) modest
▸ adjective:  (rare) bashful

Similar:
verecundious, inverecund, virid, vermeiled, crimson, contemptive, recondite, rubedinous, reckful, subrecumbent, more...

Opposite:
impudent, brazen, shameless, bold, audacious

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Similar:
verecundious, inverecund, virid, vermeiled, crimson, contemptive, recondite, rubedinous, reckful, subrecumbent, more...

Opposite:
impudent, brazen, shameless, bold, audacious



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