shrinking (n.)
- atrophy
- attenuation
- backward
- bashfulness
- blank
- chilly
- cold
- compunction
- consumption
- cool
- demur
- demurral
- diffidence
- drying
- dwindling
- dying
- ebbing
- emaciation
- fading
- falter
- faltering
- forbidding
- hesitance
- hesitancy
- hesitation
- icy
- modesty
- objection
- pause
- protest
- qualm
- quiet
- receding
- recoil
- remote
- scary
- scruple
- scrupulousness
- shrinkage
- shy
- shyness
- sinking
- standoff
- thinning
- timid
- trembling
- waning
- wasting
- withering
shrinking (adj.)
- aloof
- aseptic
- backward
- bashful
- blank
- boggling
- chilly
- cold
- constrained
- cool
- cowardly
- detached
- diffident
- diminishing
- discreet
- distant
- drying
- dwindling
- dying
- expressionless
- fading
- faltering
- fearful
- fearing
- fearsome
- forbidding
- frigid
- frosty
- goosy
- guarded
- hesitant
- hesitating
- icy
- impassive
- impersonal
- inaccessible
- introverted
- jumpy
- modest
- mousy
- nervous
- offish
- quiet
- receding
- remote
- removed
- repressed
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- scary
- scrupulous
- searing
- shaky
- shivery
- shy
- skittish
- squeamish
- standoffish
- subdued
- suppressed
- timid
- timorous
- trembling
- tremulous
- trigger-happy
- unapproachable
- uncongenial
- undemonstrative
- unexpansive
- waning
- withdrawn
- withering
