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timidity

  • 1 timidez

    f.
    1 shyness.
    2 timidness, bashfulness, self-consciousness, coyness.
    * * *
    1 shyness, timidity
    * * *
    SF shyness, timidity
    * * *
    femenino ( retraimiento) shyness; (falta de decisión, coraje) timidity
    * * *
    = timidity, bashfulness, self-consciousness, shyness.
    Ex. In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.
    Ex. In other cases, straightforward alphabetical arrangement scatters topics within the same facet which could be arranged more helpfully; eg in Psychology we find BF575 Special forms of emotion eg.A5 Anger.A9 Awe.B3 bashfulness.F2 Fear.H3 Hate.L8 Love. S4 Self-consciousness.
    Ex. In other cases, straightforward alphabetical arrangement scatters topics within the same facet which could be arranged more helpfully; eg in Psychology we find BF575 Special forms of emotion eg.A5 Anger.A9 Awe.B3 Bashfulness.F2 Fear.H3 Hate.L8 Love. S4 self-consciousness.
    Ex. Moreover, significant gender differences are reported regarding remorse, depression, fear, anger, sadness, shyness, shame, surprise, contempt, concentration, astonishment, disdain, blame, & awe.
    ----
    * perder la timidez con = warm up to.
    * * *
    femenino ( retraimiento) shyness; (falta de decisión, coraje) timidity
    * * *
    = timidity, bashfulness, self-consciousness, shyness.

    Ex: In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.

    Ex: In other cases, straightforward alphabetical arrangement scatters topics within the same facet which could be arranged more helpfully; eg in Psychology we find BF575 Special forms of emotion eg.A5 Anger.A9 Awe.B3 bashfulness.F2 Fear.H3 Hate.L8 Love. S4 Self-consciousness.
    Ex: In other cases, straightforward alphabetical arrangement scatters topics within the same facet which could be arranged more helpfully; eg in Psychology we find BF575 Special forms of emotion eg.A5 Anger.A9 Awe.B3 Bashfulness.F2 Fear.H3 Hate.L8 Love. S4 self-consciousness.
    Ex: Moreover, significant gender differences are reported regarding remorse, depression, fear, anger, sadness, shyness, shame, surprise, contempt, concentration, astonishment, disdain, blame, & awe.
    * perder la timidez con = warm up to.

    * * *
    (retraimiento) shyness; (falta de decisión, coraje) timidity
    * * *

    timidez sustantivo femenino ( retraimiento) shyness;
    (falta de decisión, coraje) timidity
    timidez sustantivo femenino shyness
    ' timidez' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    en
    - reparo
    - retraer
    - sobreponerse
    - turbar
    - turbación
    - vergonzosa
    - vergonzoso
    - aparente
    - invencible
    - superar
    English:
    fault
    - self-consciousness
    - sheepishness
    - shyness
    - timidity
    - shyly
    - timidly
    * * *
    1. [vergüenza] shyness;
    hablaba con timidez he spoke shyly
    2. [vacilación] timidity;
    se acercó con timidez she approached timidly
    * * *
    f shyness, timidity
    * * *
    : timidity, shyness
    * * *
    timidez n shyness

    Spanish-English dictionary > timidez

  • 2 apocamiento

    m.
    1 timidity.
    2 belittlement, depreciation, disparagement.
    3 diffidence, tameness, poorness of spirit, timidity.
    * * *
    1 timidity, lack of self-confidence
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=timidez) timidity; (=humildad) lowliness; (=falta de voluntad) spinelessness
    2) (=depresión) depression, depressed state
    * * *
    a) ( falta de carácter) timidity, lack of self-confidence
    b) ( depresión) depression
    * * *
    a) ( falta de carácter) timidity, lack of self-confidence
    b) ( depresión) depression
    * * *
    1 (falta de carácter) timidity, lack of self-confidence
    2 (depresión) depression
    * * *
    timidity
    * * *
    : timidity

    Spanish-English dictionary > apocamiento

  • 3 poquedad

    f.
    1 parvity, paucity, littleness.
    2 cowardice, pusillanimity.
    3 trifle, thing of no value.
    4 mite, very small portion of a thing (poca cantidad).
    5 small quantity, paucity, smallness of number, fewness.
    6 small thing, smallness.
    7 timidity, lack of spirit, pusillanimity.
    * * *
    1 (timidez) timidity
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=timidez) timidity, pusillanimity frm
    2) (=escasez) scantiness; (=pequeñez) smallness
    3)

    una poquedad — (=algo pequeño) a small thing; (=nimiedad) a trifle

    Spanish-English dictionary > poquedad

  • 4 agudo

    adj.
    1 sharp, smart, keen, astute.
    2 intense, severe, fierce, excruciating.
    3 high-pitched, sharp, shrill, piping.
    4 acute, clever, keen, insightful.
    5 witty, clever.
    6 pointed, acute, sharp-edged.
    7 acute.
    8 oxytone, accented in the last syllable, oxytonic, with a stronger phonetic accent on last syllable.
    Acordeón es una palabra aguda "Acordeon" is accented in the last syllable...
    m.
    high-pitch note, treble.
    * * *
    1 (afilado) sharp
    2 (dolor) acute
    4 figurado (sentido) sharp, keen
    5 (voz) high-pitched
    6 (sonido) treble, high
    7 LINGÚÍSTICA (palabra) oxytone; (acento) acute
    * * *
    (f. - aguda)
    adj.
    1) sharp, acute
    2) high, high-pitched
    3) clever, witty
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=afilado) [filo] sharp; [instrumento] sharp, pointed
    2) (=intenso) [enfermedad, dolor] acute; [acento] acute
    3) [ángulo] acute
    4) (=incisivo) [mente, sentido] sharp, keen; [ingenio] ready, lively; [crítica] penetrating; [observación] smart, clever; [pregunta] acute, searching
    5) (=gracioso) witty
    6) (Mús) [nota] high, high-pitched; [voz, sonido] piercing
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1)
    a) <filo/punta> sharp
    b) < ángulo> acute
    2)
    a) <voz/sonido> high-pitched; < nota> high
    b) < dolor> ( duradero) intense, acute; ( momentáneo) sharp
    c) < crisis> severe
    d) <aumento/descenso> sharp
    3)
    a) ( perspicaz) < persona> quick-witted, sharp; < comentario> shrewd
    b) ( gracioso) <comentario/persona> witty
    c) <sentido/instinto> sharp
    4) < palabra> stressed on the last syllable; < acento> acute
    * * *
    = keen [keener -comp., keenest -sup.], sharp [sharper -comp., sharpest -sup.], trenchant, witty [wittier -comp., wittiest -sup.], perceptive, acute, searing, stinging, heightened, high-pitched, penetrating, razor-sharp, keen-witted, pointy [pointier -comp., pointiest - sup.].
    Ex. Formal logic used to be a keen instrument in the hands of the teacher in his trying of students' souls.
    Ex. 'I'll give it more thought,' she said with a sharp frown, resuming her former posture.
    Ex. However, both BTI and LCSH occasionally use headings of this kind, though one could argue strongly that these are out of place in direct entry methods, and they come in for trenchant criticism from Metcalfe.
    Ex. This book offers pithy and witty advice on how to write, defects in prose style, punctuation, and preparing a manuscript.
    Ex. In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.
    Ex. In some areas of study, notably the social sciences, the problems vocabulary are acute.
    Ex. His searing and rigorously logical analysis of the '1949 ALA Rules for Entry' is one of my favorite pieces of writing on cataloging.
    Ex. In a stinging rebuke to the American Library Association, Nat Hentoff has criticized the ALA for failing to take action to defend volunteer librarians in Cuba who are being subjected to a brutal crackdown.
    Ex. The heightened level of community awareness has led some local authorities to take the initiative and to become information disseminators in their own right.
    Ex. The noise is a high-pitched whine or hiss the machine emits during operation.
    Ex. In this connection, Ohmes and Jones of the Florida State University Library have offered some rather penetrating insights regarding what they call 'The Other Half of Cataloging'.
    Ex. As mentioned in the first part, developing a razor-sharp memory is not going to occur overnight.
    Ex. She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.
    Ex. So much so that my canines (or eye-teeth, they're the pointy ones) ended up growing over my incisors/first molars rather than between them.
    ----
    * acento agudo = acute.
    * de vista aguda = sharp-eyed.
    * dolor agudo = twinge.
    * Enfermedad + aguda = acute + Enfermedad, a bad case of + Enfermedad.
    * infección aguda = acute infection.
    * miastenia aguda = myasthenia gravis.
    * SARS (Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo y Grave) = SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1)
    a) <filo/punta> sharp
    b) < ángulo> acute
    2)
    a) <voz/sonido> high-pitched; < nota> high
    b) < dolor> ( duradero) intense, acute; ( momentáneo) sharp
    c) < crisis> severe
    d) <aumento/descenso> sharp
    3)
    a) ( perspicaz) < persona> quick-witted, sharp; < comentario> shrewd
    b) ( gracioso) <comentario/persona> witty
    c) <sentido/instinto> sharp
    4) < palabra> stressed on the last syllable; < acento> acute
    * * *
    = keen [keener -comp., keenest -sup.], sharp [sharper -comp., sharpest -sup.], trenchant, witty [wittier -comp., wittiest -sup.], perceptive, acute, searing, stinging, heightened, high-pitched, penetrating, razor-sharp, keen-witted, pointy [pointier -comp., pointiest - sup.].

    Ex: Formal logic used to be a keen instrument in the hands of the teacher in his trying of students' souls.

    Ex: 'I'll give it more thought,' she said with a sharp frown, resuming her former posture.
    Ex: However, both BTI and LCSH occasionally use headings of this kind, though one could argue strongly that these are out of place in direct entry methods, and they come in for trenchant criticism from Metcalfe.
    Ex: This book offers pithy and witty advice on how to write, defects in prose style, punctuation, and preparing a manuscript.
    Ex: In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.
    Ex: In some areas of study, notably the social sciences, the problems vocabulary are acute.
    Ex: His searing and rigorously logical analysis of the '1949 ALA Rules for Entry' is one of my favorite pieces of writing on cataloging.
    Ex: In a stinging rebuke to the American Library Association, Nat Hentoff has criticized the ALA for failing to take action to defend volunteer librarians in Cuba who are being subjected to a brutal crackdown.
    Ex: The heightened level of community awareness has led some local authorities to take the initiative and to become information disseminators in their own right.
    Ex: The noise is a high-pitched whine or hiss the machine emits during operation.
    Ex: In this connection, Ohmes and Jones of the Florida State University Library have offered some rather penetrating insights regarding what they call 'The Other Half of Cataloging'.
    Ex: As mentioned in the first part, developing a razor-sharp memory is not going to occur overnight.
    Ex: She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.
    Ex: So much so that my canines (or eye-teeth, they're the pointy ones) ended up growing over my incisors/first molars rather than between them.
    * acento agudo = acute.
    * de vista aguda = sharp-eyed.
    * dolor agudo = twinge.
    * Enfermedad + aguda = acute + Enfermedad, a bad case of + Enfermedad.
    * infección aguda = acute infection.
    * miastenia aguda = myasthenia gravis.
    * SARS (Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo y Grave) = SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).

    * * *
    agudo -da
    A
    1 ‹filo/punta› sharp
    2 ‹ángulo› acute
    B
    1 ‹voz› high-pitched; (irritante) shrill; ‹sonido› high-pitched; (irritante) piercing; ‹nota› high
    2 ‹dolor› (duradero) intense, acute; (momentáneo) sharp
    3 ‹crisis› severe
    4 ‹aumento/descenso› sharp
    un agudo descenso del índice de mortalidad a sharp fall in the death rate
    C
    1 (perspicaz) ‹persona› quick-witted, sharp; ‹observación/comentario› shrewd; ‹pregunta› shrewd, searching
    2 (gracioso) ‹comentario/persona› witty
    3 ‹vista› sharp; ‹oído› sharp, acute; ‹sentido/instinto› keen, sharp
    D
    1 ‹palabra› stressed on the last syllable
    2 ‹acento› acute
    * * *

     

    agudo
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    1
    a) ‹filo/punta› sharp

    b) ‹ ángulo› acute

    2
    a) ‹voz/sonido› high-pitched;

    ‹ nota› high
    b) ‹ dolor› ( duradero) intense, acute;

    ( momentáneo) sharp
    c) ‹ crisis› severe

    d) ‹aumento/descenso› sharp

    3

    ‹ comentario› shrewd
    b) ( gracioso) ‹comentario/persona› witty

    c) ‹sentido/instinto› sharp

    agudo,-a adjetivo
    1 (sensación, enfermedad) acute
    2 (tono de voz) high-pitched
    (sonido) treble, high
    3 (ingenioso) witty
    4 (oído, vista, olfato) sharp, keen
    ' agudo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aguda
    - fina
    - fino
    - ingeniosa
    - ingenioso
    - lista
    - listo
    - sagaz
    - estridente
    - ladino
    - pinchazo
    - pitido
    - quejido
    English:
    acute
    - crack
    - high
    - high-pitched
    - keen
    - piping
    - quick
    - quick-witted
    - raging
    - sharp
    - shrill
    - witty
    - yap
    * * *
    agudo, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [filo, punta] sharp
    2. [vista, olfato] keen
    3. [crisis, problema, enfermedad] serious, acute
    4. [dolor] intense;
    sentí un dolor agudo al mover el brazo I felt a sharp pain when I moved my arm
    5. [sonido, voz] high, high-pitched
    6. [perspicaz] [persona] sharp, shrewd;
    [ingenio] keen, sharp
    7. [ingenioso] witty;
    estás muy agudo you're on form o very witty today;
    Irónico
    ¡muy agudo! [cuando algo no es gracioso] very clever o funny!;
    [cuando algo es evidente] very observant!
    8. Gram [palabra] stressed on the last syllable
    9. Gram [tilde] acute
    ♦ nm
    agudos [sonidos] treble
    * * *
    adj
    1 acute
    2 ( afilado) sharp
    3 sonido high-pitched
    4 ( perspicaz) sharp
    :
    acento agudo acute accent
    * * *
    agudo, -da adj
    1) : acute, sharp
    2) : shrill, high-pitched
    3) perspicaz: clever, shrewd
    * * *
    agudo adj
    1. (en general) sharp
    2. (sonido, voz) high / high pitched
    3. (ángulo, dolor) acute
    4. (comentario) witty [comp. wittier; superl. wittiest]
    5. (sentido) keen
    "sofá" es una palabra aguda the accent is on the last syllable in "sofá"

    Spanish-English dictionary > agudo

  • 5 perspicaz

    adj.
    1 sharp, perceptive.
    2 perspicacious, sharp, clever, intelligent.
    * * *
    1 sharp, perspicacious
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=agudo, sagaz) perceptive, shrewd
    2) [vista] keen; [persona] keen-sighted
    * * *
    adjetivo shrewd, perceptive
    * * *
    = percipient, sharp-eyed, perceptive, observant, clear-sighted, penetrating, razor-sharp, keen-witted, shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.].
    Ex. Manoeuvres that have been used, as the the percipient observer well knows, include simplifications and routines to save time.
    Ex. Sharp-eyed researchers noted that twenty-three per cent of the people who came did so in order to meet someone or to use the phone.
    Ex. In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.
    Ex. Every member of staff has a duty to be observant where safety is concerned.
    Ex. Her diversified and highly committed authorship is characterized by disrespectful humour, clear-sighted solemnity and inconspicuous warmth.
    Ex. In this connection, Ohmes and Jones of the Florida State University Library have offered some rather penetrating insights regarding what they call 'The Other Half of Cataloging'.
    Ex. As mentioned in the first part, developing a razor-sharp memory is not going to occur overnight.
    Ex. She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.
    Ex. Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.
    * * *
    adjetivo shrewd, perceptive
    * * *
    = percipient, sharp-eyed, perceptive, observant, clear-sighted, penetrating, razor-sharp, keen-witted, shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.].

    Ex: Manoeuvres that have been used, as the the percipient observer well knows, include simplifications and routines to save time.

    Ex: Sharp-eyed researchers noted that twenty-three per cent of the people who came did so in order to meet someone or to use the phone.
    Ex: In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.
    Ex: Every member of staff has a duty to be observant where safety is concerned.
    Ex: Her diversified and highly committed authorship is characterized by disrespectful humour, clear-sighted solemnity and inconspicuous warmth.
    Ex: In this connection, Ohmes and Jones of the Florida State University Library have offered some rather penetrating insights regarding what they call 'The Other Half of Cataloging'.
    Ex: As mentioned in the first part, developing a razor-sharp memory is not going to occur overnight.
    Ex: She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.
    Ex: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

    * * *
    shrewd, perceptive, perspicacious ( frml)
    * * *

    perspicaz adjetivo
    shrewd, perceptive
    perspicaz adjetivo perceptive, sharp
    ' perspicaz' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    sagaz
    - agudo
    - clarividente
    English:
    acute
    - clear-sighted
    - discerning
    - penetrating
    - perception
    - perceptive
    - searching
    - sharp-witted
    - shrewd
    - subtle
    * * *
    sharp, perceptive
    * * *
    adj shrewd, perspicacious fml
    * * *
    perspicaz adj, pl - caces : shrewd, perspicacious

    Spanish-English dictionary > perspicaz

  • 6 sagaz

    adj.
    astute, shrewd.
    * * *
    ► adjetivo (pl sagaces)
    1 clever, sagacious
    2 (astuto) shrewd, astute
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [persona] (=astuto) shrewd, clever; (=perspicaz) sagacious
    2) [perro] keen-scented
    * * *
    adjetivo shrewd, astute
    * * *
    = canny, politic, vivacious, wily [wilier -comp., wiliest -sup.], sly [slyer/slier -comp., slyest/sliest -sup.], perceptive, keen-witted, shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.].
    Ex. The principles behind successful commercial Web sites (clear mission, valuable content, clean design and canny publicity) can be applied by academics in establishing non-profit Web sites.
    Ex. Libraries are often confronted with finding a way of dealing with gift books which is both efficient and politic.
    Ex. This petite, agile, graceful and vivacious artiste was a picture of self-confidence on the stage.
    Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.
    Ex. You must be a bit sly sometimes to succeed in the world.
    Ex. In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.
    Ex. She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.
    Ex. Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.
    * * *
    adjetivo shrewd, astute
    * * *
    = canny, politic, vivacious, wily [wilier -comp., wiliest -sup.], sly [slyer/slier -comp., slyest/sliest -sup.], perceptive, keen-witted, shrewd [shrewder -comp., shrewdest -sup.].

    Ex: The principles behind successful commercial Web sites (clear mission, valuable content, clean design and canny publicity) can be applied by academics in establishing non-profit Web sites.

    Ex: Libraries are often confronted with finding a way of dealing with gift books which is both efficient and politic.
    Ex: This petite, agile, graceful and vivacious artiste was a picture of self-confidence on the stage.
    Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.
    Ex: You must be a bit sly sometimes to succeed in the world.
    Ex: In their profound and perceptive essay on professionalism, Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Wasserman write at some length on this extraordinary phenomenon, 'the essential timidity of responsibility for solving informational problems and providing unequivocal answers'.
    Ex: She is famous for her series featuring homicide detective Peter Decker and his keen-witted, beautiful wife.
    Ex: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

    * * *
    shrewd, astute
    un político sagaz y avezado a shrewd o astute and experienced politician
    ten cuidado con él, es muy sagaz watch out for him, he's very shrewd o sharp o wily
    * * *

    sagaz adjetivo
    shrewd, astute
    sagaz adj (perspicaz, agudo) shrewd, astute
    ' sagaz' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    astucia
    - astuto
    English:
    sagacious
    - astute
    - discriminating
    - probing
    * * *
    sagaz adj
    astute, shrewd
    * * *
    adj shrewd, sharp
    * * *
    sagaz adj, pl sagaces perspicaz: shrewd, discerning, sagacious

    Spanish-English dictionary > sagaz

  • 7 cobardía

    f.
    1 cowardice, cowardliness, faint-heartedness, gutlessness.
    2 cowardly action, unmanly action.
    * * *
    1 cowardice
    * * *
    SF (=miedo) cowardice, cowardliness; (=timidez) faint-heartedness, timidity
    * * *
    femenino cowardice
    * * *
    Ex. In this novel the central themes are courage and cowardice and what these are.
    ----
    * acto de cobardía = act of cowardice.
    * no hacer Algo por cobardía = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).
    * retirarse por cobardía = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).
    * * *
    femenino cowardice
    * * *

    Ex: In this novel the central themes are courage and cowardice and what these are.

    * acto de cobardía = act of cowardice.
    * no hacer Algo por cobardía = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).
    * retirarse por cobardía = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).

    * * *
    cowardice
    * * *

    cobardía sustantivo femenino
    cowardice;

    cobardía sustantivo femenino cowardice

    ' cobardía' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    canillera
    English:
    abject
    - cowardice
    * * *
    cowardice
    * * *
    f cowardice
    * * *
    : cowardice

    Spanish-English dictionary > cobardía

  • 8 miramiento

    m.
    1 consideration.
    sin miramientos without the least consideration
    andarse con miramientos to stand on ceremony
    2 looking, look.
    3 prudence, circumspection, caution.
    * * *
    1 consideration
    \
    andarse con miramientos to be extremely polite
    sin miramientos with total disregard
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=consideración) considerateness; (=cortesía) courtesy
    2) (=circunspección) care, caution; pey (=timidez) timidity, excessive caution
    3) pl miramientos (=respeto) respect sing ; (=cortesías) courtesies, attentions
    * * *

    ¿por qué he de tener yo miramientos con ella? — why should I show her any consideration?

    * * *
    ----
    * con demasiados miramientos = mealy-mouthed.
    * con muchos miramientos = ceremoniously.
    * sin miramientos = unceremoniously.
    * * *

    ¿por qué he de tener yo miramientos con ella? — why should I show her any consideration?

    * * *
    * con demasiados miramientos = mealy-mouthed.
    * con muchos miramientos = ceremoniously.
    * sin miramientos = unceremoniously.
    * * *
    ¿por qué he de tener yo miramientos con ella? why should I show her any consideration?, why should I put myself out for her?
    siempre anda con muchos miramientos, procurando no ofender a nadie he's always extremely considerate and takes great pains not to offend anyone
    aun sabiendo eso lo despidieron sin ningún miramiento or sin miramientos although they knew about that, they fired him regardless
    tratan a los ancianos sin ningún miramiento they treat elderly people with a total lack of consideration
    * * *

    miramiento sustantivo masculino:


    * * *
    consideration;
    no es del tipo de personas que se anda con miramientos he's not one to stand on ceremony;
    siempre se anda con muchos miramientos he always treads very carefully;
    sin miramientos without the least consideration;
    expresó su opinión sin ningún miramiento he expressed his opinion with no thought for anyone else;
    la prensa se cebó con él sin miramiento alguno the press laid into him unceremoniously;
    los rebeldes fueron ejecutados sin miramientos the rebels were summarily executed
    * * *
    m consideration, thoughtfulness;
    sin miramientos tratar a alguien without consideration; decir algo abruptly, without ceremony
    * * *
    1) consideración: consideration, respect
    2)
    sin miramientos : without due consideration, carelessly

    Spanish-English dictionary > miramiento

  • 9 cortedad

    f.
    1 shortness.
    2 shyness (timidez).
    cortedad de miras shortsightedness
    3 shortage, lack, scarcity, dearth.
    * * *
    1 (pequeñez) shortness, smallness
    3 figurado (timidez) shyness, timidity
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de tiempo] shortness, brevity; [de espacio] smallness; (tb: cortedad de alcances) stupidity
    2) (=escasez) dearth, lack
    3) (=timidez) shyness, bashfulness
    * * *
    femenino shortness
    * * *
    femenino shortness
    * * *
    shortness
    cortedad de miras shortsightedness
    * * *
    1. [de longitud] shortness;
    [de duración] shortness, brevity
    2. [timidez] shyness;
    cortedad de miras short-sightedness
    * * *
    f shortness;
    cortedad de miras shortsightedness

    Spanish-English dictionary > cortedad

  • 10 pacatería

    f.
    prudishness, prudery.
    * * *
    SF pey
    1) (=timidez) timidity
    2) (=modestia) excessive modesty, prudishness
    * * *
    femenino prudishness
    * * *
    femenino prudishness
    * * *
    prudishness

    Spanish-English dictionary > pacatería

  • 11 retraimiento

    m.
    1 shyness, reserve.
    2 isolation, detachment, aloofness.
    3 withdrawal.
    * * *
    1 (timidez) shyness, reserve, retiring nature
    2 (soledad) solitude
    * * *
    SM (=timidez) shyness, reserve
    * * *
    a) ( timidez) shyness; ( aislamiento) isolation, seclusion
    b) ( acción) withdrawal
    * * *
    a) ( timidez) shyness; ( aislamiento) isolation, seclusion
    b) ( acción) withdrawal
    * * *
    A
    1 (timidez) shyness
    2 (aislamiento) isolation, seclusion
    B (acción) withdrawal
    * * *

    retraimiento sustantivo masculino shyness
    ' retraimiento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    timidez
    English:
    withdrawal
    * * *
    1. [acción] withdrawal
    2. [carácter] shyness, reserve
    * * *
    1) : shyness, timidity
    2) : withdrawal

    Spanish-English dictionary > retraimiento

  • 12 desencogerse

    1 (extenderse) to stretch, give
    2 figurado (perder el encogimiento) to come out of one's shell, become more confident
    * * *

    Spanish-English dictionary > desencogerse

  • 13 temblona

    adj.&f.
    tremulous.
    * * *

    temblón,-ona adjetivo trembling, shaking

    Spanish-English dictionary > temblona

  • 14 apocamiento

    • belittlement
    • diffidence
    • disparagement
    • timidity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > apocamiento

  • 15 cortedad

    • bashfulness
    • dearth
    • lacing
    • lack character
    • shortage
    • shortness
    • shyness
    • timidity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > cortedad

  • 16 falta de coraje

    • cowardice
    • lack of cooperation
    • lack of credibility
    • lack of skill
    • lack of strength
    • timidity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > falta de coraje

  • 17 falta de seguridad

    • self-discovery
    • self-dominion
    • timidity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > falta de seguridad

  • 18 mostrar timidez

    • show timidity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > mostrar timidez

  • 19 poquedad

    • fewness
    • lack of skill
    • lack of strength
    • pushup stack
    • pusillanimous
    • small quantity
    • small thing
    • smallness
    • smallness of number
    • timidity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > poquedad

  • 20 recatarse

    • be cautious
    • show timidity

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > recatarse

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