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| Main Entry: | meek |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy; compliant |
| Synonyms: | deferential, docile, forbearing, gentle, humble, lenient, long-suffering, lowly, manageable, mild, modest, nothing, orderly, pabulum*, passive, patient, peaceful, plain, resigned, serene, soft, spineless, spiritless, subdued, submissive, tame, timid, tolerant, unassuming, unpretentious, weak, wishy-washy*, yielding, zero*, acquiescent, longanimous, milquetoast, unresisting, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, immodest, impertinent, uninhibited, emboldened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ashamed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretting, remorseful |
| Synonyms: | abashed, apologetic, bashful, blushing, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen, debased, disconcerted, distraught, distressed, embarrassed, guilty, hesitant, humble, humiliated, meek, muddled, penitent, regretful, reluctant, repentant, shamed, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, sorry, submissive, chagrined, compunctious, demeaned, discomfited, flustered, humbled, mortified, stammering, stuttering |
| Antonyms: | bold, defiant, immodest, shameless, not sorry, unregretful, unremorseful, unself-conscious |
| Main Entry: | diffident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hesitant; unconfident |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, chary, coy, demure, distrustful, doubtful, dubious, humble, insecure, meek, modest, mousy, reluctant, reserved, retiring, self-conscious, sheepish, shrinking, shy, suspicious, timid, timorous, unassuming, unobtrusive, unsure, withdrawn, blenching, constrained, flinching, rabbity, self-effacing, unassertive, unassured, unpoised |
| Antonyms: | bold, confident |
| Main Entry: | docile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant, submissive |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adaptable, agreeable, amenable, childlike, complacent, cool, ductile, easy, easygoing, gentle, governable, humble, laid-back, manageable, meek, mellow, mild, obedient, obliging, orderly, pliable, pliant, quiet, resigned, soft, tame, teachable, tractable, usable, well-behaved, willing, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, docious, easily influenced, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, stubborn, uncooperative, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | fainthearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timid |
| Synonyms: | afraid, cowardly, fearful, frightened, gutless, intimidated, lily-livered*, meek, mousy, spineless, weak, yellow*, cowed, cowering, having cold feet, unassertive, wimpy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lowly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, plain |
| Synonyms: | average, base, common, commonplace, docile, dutiful, everyday, gentle, humble, ignoble, low, mean, meek, menial, mild, modest, mundane, obscure, obsequious, ordinary, plebeian, poor, prosaic, retiring, servile, simple, submissive, subordinate, unassuming, unpretentious, baseborn, cast down, lowborn, proletarian, reverential, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | higher, lofty, noble, pretentious, superior |
| Main Entry: | patient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable, willing to endure |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, calm, composed, enduring, even-tempered, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, imperturbable, indulgent, lenient, long-suffering, meek, mild, persevering, persistent, philosophical, quiet, resigned, self-possessed, serene, submissive, tolerant, tranquil, understanding, unruffled, untiring, easy-going, mild-tempered, philosophic, stoical, uncomplaining |
| Antonyms: | agitated, frustrated, impatient, intolerant, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | retiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy, undemonstrative |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, humble, meek, modest, quiet, recessive, reclusive, reserved, restrained, reticent, shrinking, timid, timorous, unassuming, unsociable, withdrawn, nongregarious, not forward, rabbity, self-effacing, unaffable, unassertive, unexpansive, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | demonstrative, extroverted, outgoing, self-confident |
| Main Entry: | submissive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant |
| Synonyms: | abject, accommodating, amenable, deferential, docile, domesticated, dutiful, humble, ingratiating, lowly, malleable, meek, menial, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, patient, pliable, pliant, resigned, servile, slavish, subdued, tame, tractable, yes*, yielding, acquiescent, bowing down, comformable, complying, giving-in, nonresistant, nonresisting, obeying, uncomplaining, unresisting |
| Antonyms: | disobedient, fighting, intractable, resistant, unyielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tractable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manageable |
| Synonyms: | amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, governable, malleable, meek, obedient, persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tame, willing, workable, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, controllable, going along with, hanging loose, putty in hands, rolling with punches, tractile |
| Antonyms: | intractable, obstinate, stubborn, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unruly |
| Main Entry: | unassuming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, diffident, humble, lowly, meek, modest, mousy*, plain, prim, quiet, reserved, retiring, simple, unobtrusive, unpretentious, self-effacing, unambitious, unassertive, unostentatious, unpretending |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, confident, presumptuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unobtrusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | keeping a low profile |
| Synonyms: | humble, inconspicuous, low-key, meek, modest, quiet, reserved, restrained, retiring, subdued, tasteful, unassuming, unpretentious, low-profile, self-effacing, soft-pedaled, unnoticeable, unostentatious |
| Antonyms: | flaunting, noticeable, obtrusive |
| Main Entry: | henpecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dominated by one's wife |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, browbeaten, compliant, constrained, docile, dominated, in fear of one's wife, intimidated, led by the nose, meek, nagged, obedient, passive, resigned, subjected to nagging, submissive, timid, unassertive, under one's thumb, unresisting, wife-ridden, yielding |
| Main Entry: | gentle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a mild or kind nature |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, compassionate, considerate, cool*, docile, domesticated, easy, genial, humane, kindly, lenient, manageable, meek, mellow, merciful, moderate, pacific, peaceful, placid, pleasant, pleasing, pliable, quiet, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, tame, taught, temperate, tender, tractable, trained, warmhearted, biddable, cultivated, disciplined, dove-like, laid back, sweet-tempered |
| Notes: | genteel means marked by refinement in taste and manners; a gentile is a person who does not acknowledge your God or denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; gentle means soft and mild or having or showing a kindly or tender nature |
| Antonyms: | crude, rough, troubled, unkind, violent, wild |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, sheepish, silent, simple, temperate, timid, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpretentious, self-effacing, unassertive, unassured, unboastful, unpresuming, unpretending, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | arrogant, assured, bold, brave, conceited, courageous, proud, self-confident, egotistical, unabashed, unashamed |
| Main Entry: | tame |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domesticated, compliant |
| Synonyms: | amenable, broken, civilized, docile, domestic, fearless, gentle, harmless, kindly, manageable, meek, mild, muzzled, obedient, overcome, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tractable, trained, unafraid, acclimatized, biddable, bridled, busted, cultivated, disciplined, gentle as a lamb, habituated, harnessed, housebroken, unresisting, yoked |
| Antonyms: | unmanageable, untamed, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, pleasant in personality |
| Synonyms: | amiable, balmy, bland, calm, clement, compassionate, complaisant, deferential, docile, dull, easy, equable, feeble, flat, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, humane, indulgent, insipid, jejune, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, merciful, moderate, obeisant, obliging, pacific, patient, peaceable, placid, serene, smooth, soft, spiritless, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, temperate, tender, tranquil, unassuming, vapid, warm, forbearant, good-tempered, mild-mannered |
| Antonyms: | agitated, nervous, flappable |
| Main Entry: | quiet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | collected, contented, docile, fixed, gentle, halcyon, inactive, isolated, level, meek, mild, motionless, pacific, placid, private, remote, reserved, restful, retired, secluded, secret, sedate, serene, shy, smooth, stable, stagnant, still, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, hushed, sequestered, unanxious, unexcited, unfrequented |
| Antonyms: | agitated, troubled |
| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | living in, coming from poor circumstances |
| Synonyms: | base, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean, meek, obscure, plain, plebeian, poor, rude, simple, unpretentious, baseborn, lowborn, unwashed |
| Antonyms: | high, rich |
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