"shy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

shy adjetivo

shy + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 30
shy smile • shy man • shy girl • shy boy • shy person • ...
verbo + shy
Kolokacji: 5
feel shy • fall shy • fight shy • look shy • stop shy
adverbio + shy
Kolokacji: 19
painfully shy • extremely shy • suddenly shy • somewhat shy • twice shy • ...
(1) painfully, terribly
Kolokacji: 2
1. extremely shy = niezwykle nieśmiały extremely shy
2. suddenly shy = nagle nieśmiały suddenly shy
3. twice shy = dwakroć nieśmiały twice shy
4. generally shy = powszechnie nieśmiały generally shy
5. oddly shy = dziwnie nieśmiały oddly shy
6. notoriously shy = notorycznie nieśmiały notoriously shy
  • Your best chance of seeing the notoriously shy mountain is in the late autumn, winter and early spring when the air is fairly clear.
  • Notoriously publicity shy, the Texas-based investor did not even attend the news conference announcing his gift.
  • I'm trying to find people who are notoriously shy, and they want me to bring an entire army with me?
  • Mr. Alpert, who just turned 60, is notoriously shy and avoids interviews.
  • Men are notoriously shy of those three little words.
  • Charles, the 43-year-old "creative brother" and one of the world's premier modern art collectors, is notoriously shy.
  • Though Trencrom's weapons-dismantling business made him known throughout the world, he was notoriously camera shy and professionally elusive to the media.
  • An engineer by profession, the notoriously media shy Grill is nevertheless very well respected in engineering circles.
  • She quickly dominated the social scene, being far more outgoing and charming than the notoriously shy brothers.
  • "I was notoriously shy when it came to girls."
7. naturally shy = z natury nieśmiały naturally shy
8. normally shy = normalnie nieśmiały normally shy
9. pathologically shy = patologicznie nieśmiały pathologically shy
10. hardly shy = ledwie nieśmiały hardly shy
11. incredibly shy = niewiarygodnie nieśmiały incredibly shy
12. famously shy = doskonale nieśmiały famously shy
13. surprisingly shy = zadziwiająco nieśmiały surprisingly shy
14. intensely shy = ogromnie nieśmiały intensely shy
(3) somewhat, slightly, pretty
Kolokacji: 3
shy + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
shy of • shy about • shy with • shy in • shy around • ...

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