| Sheepish 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep. 2. (a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. Thesaurus Entries abject, amenable, apologetic, asinine, blushful, blushing, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, compliant, contrite, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, docile, embarrassed, equestrian, equine, flushed, goatish, goatlike, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, humble, humbled, manipulable, meek, melted, mulish, obedient, ovine, passive, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piggish, pliable, red, repentant, ruddy, ruminant, shamefaced, sheeplike, softened, swinish, timid, touched, tractable, ungulate, withdrawn |