blate
1 synonym and 1 antonym for blate, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Shy and easily embarrassed.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of: * Northern Middle English *blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English blāt (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale,...
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