demure

Main Entry:
demure [dih-myoor]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reserved, affected
Synonyms: backward, bashful, blushing, close, coy, decorous, diffident, earnest, humble, modest, nice, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, reticent, retiring, sedate, serious, shy, silent, skittish, sober, solemn, staid, strait-laced, timid, unassertive, unassuming, unassured
Notes: demur is the verb 'to object or voice opposition' while demure is the adjective meaning 'modest, shy'
Antonyms: aggressive, bold, extroverted, outgoing, shameless, strong
Main Entry: bashful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy
Synonyms: abashed, backward, blushful, blushing, chary, confused, constrained, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, humble, modest, nervous, overmodest, recoiling, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-conscious, self-effacing, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, silent, timid, timorous, unassertive, verecund
Antonyms: confident, unabashed, unshy
Main Entry: conventional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unoriginal
Synonyms: bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight
Antonyms: different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique
Main Entry: coy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very modest
Synonyms: backward, bashful, blushing, coquettish, demure, diffident, evasive, flirtatious, humble, kittenish, overmodest, prudish, rabbity, reserved, retiring, self-effacing, shrinking, shy, skittish, timid, unassertive
Antonyms: aggressive, forward, immodest, impudent, unshy
Main Entry: decorous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: appropriate, suitable
Synonyms: au fait, becoming, befitting, ceremonial, ceremonious, civilized, comely, comme il faut, conforming, conventional, correct, de rigueur, decent, demure, dignified, done, elegant, fit, fitting, formal, good, mannerly, meet, moral, nice, polite, prim, proper, punctilious, refined, respectable, right, seasonable, sedate, seemly, staid, well-behaved
Antonyms: impolite, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unfit, unrefined, unseemly, unsuitable
Main Entry: diffident
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hesitant; unconfident
Synonyms: backward, bashful, blenching, chary, constrained, coy, demure, distrustful, doubtful, dubious, flinching, humble, insecure, meek, modest, mousy, rabbity, reluctant, reserved, retiring, self-conscious, self-effacing, sheepish, shrinking, shy, suspicious, timid, timorous, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, unobtrusive, unpoised, unsure, withdrawn
Antonyms: bold, confident
Main Entry: humble
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: meek, unassuming
Synonyms: apprehensive, backward, bashful, biddable, blushing, content, courteous, deferential, demure, diffident, docile, fearful, gentle, hesitant, lowly, manageable, mild, modest, obliging, obsequious, ordinary, polite, quiet, reserved, respectful, retiring, reverential, sedate, self-conscious, self-effacing, servile, sheepish, shy, simple, soft-spoken, standoffish, submissive, subservient, supplicatory, tentative, timid, timorous, tractable, unambitious, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretentious, withdrawn
Antonyms: assertive, boasting, brave, conceited, egotistical, insolent, pretentious, proud, showy
Main Entry: introverted
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reserved
Synonyms: bashful, cautious, close-mouthed, cold*, collected, cool, demure, introspective, modest, offish, quiet, reclusive, restrained, secretive, shy, soft-spoken, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, withdrawn
Main Entry: modest
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy
Synonyms: bashful, blushing, chaste, coy, demure, diffident, discreet, humble, lowly, meek, moderate, nice, proper, prudent, quiet, reserved, resigned, reticent, retiring, seemly, self-conscious, self-effacing, sheepish, silent, simple, temperate, timid, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, unboastful, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious, withdrawing
Antonyms: arrogant, assured, bold, brave, conceited, courageous, egotistical, proud, self-confident, unabashed, unashamed
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