| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitancy; lack of confidence |
| Synonyms: | backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness, reluctance, reserve, self-consciousness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness |
| Antonyms: | boldness, confidence |
| Main Entry: | shyness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bashfulness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, coyness, demureness, diffidence, insecurity, meekness, modesty, reserve, restraint, reticence, sheepishness, timidity, timidness, timorousness |
| Main Entry: | timidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear |
| Synonyms: | cowardice, cowardliness, faintheartedness, fearfulness, timorousness |
| Notes: | temerity is daring or recklessness; timidity is fearfulness or hesitancy |
| Antonyms: | audacity, boldness, guts, nerve, stoutheartedness |
| Main Entry: | retiringness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, backwardness, bashfulness, coyness, demureness, diffidence, insecurity, meekness, modesty, reserve, restraint, reticence, sheepishness, timidity, timidness, timorousness |
| Main Entry: | timidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, backwardness, bashfulness, coyness, demureness, diffidence, insecurity, meekness, modesty, reserve, restraint, reticence, retiringness, sheepishness, timidity, timorousness |
| Main Entry: | timidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
Related
Adjectives: |
afraid, afraid of one's own shadow, aghast, alarming, apprehensive, argh, awe-inspiring, awestricken, awestruck, awful, bashful, blushing, breathless, constrained, coy, daphnean, demure, diffident, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, faint-hearted, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fell, fidgety, formidable, frightened, frightened to death, ghastly, haunted with the fear of, horrible, horrid, horrific, horror-stricken, horror-struck, humble, in a fright, in fear, in hysterics, inspiring fear, mim, modest, more frightened than hurt, nervous, out of contenance, overmodest, pale as a ghost, pale as ashes, pale as death, panic-stricken, panic-struck, pavid, perilous, poor in spirit, portentous, pudibund, pusillanimous, redoubtable, reserved, restless, reticent, revolting, shaky, shamefaced, sheepish, shocking, shy, skittish, terrible, terrific, terror-stricken, terror-struck, timid, timorous, tremendous, tremulous, trepid, unaspiring, unassuming, unboastful, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious, verecund, white as a sheet
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| Concept: | Humility. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood; abasement, self-abasement; submission; resignation., condescension; affability (courtesy)., modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.
-verbs
be humble; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoopto conquer; carry coals; submit; submit with a good grace (brook); yield the palm., lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs., blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small., render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade [more]; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear., get a setdown.
-adjectives
humble, lowly, meek; modest; humble minded, sober-minded; unoffended; submissive; servile, [more]., condescending; affable (courteous)., humbled; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen, crestfallen; dumfoundered. flabbergasted., shorn of one's glory (disrepute) [more].
-adverbs
with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet., under correction, with due deference.
-phrases
I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Terence]; parvum parva decent [Horace].
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| Antonyms: | pride |
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