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| Main Entry: | self-conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insecure with oneself |
| Synonyms: | affected, anxious, artificial, awkward, bashful, diffident, embarrassed, mannered, nervous, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, stiff, stilted, uncertain, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsure, discomfited, ill-at-ease, out of countenance |
| Antonyms: | assured, secure, sure, unself-conscious |
| Main Entry: | self-conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insecure with oneself |
| Synonyms: | affected, anxious, artificial, awkward, bashful, diffident, embarrassed, mannered, nervous, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, stiff, stilted, uncertain, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsure, discomfited, ill-at-ease, out of countenance |
| Antonyms: | assured, secure, sure, unself-conscious |
| Main Entry: | bashful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | abashed, backward, blushing, chary, confused, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, humble, modest, nervous, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, silent, timid, timorous, blushful, constrained, overmodest, recoiling, self-effacing, unassertive, verecund |
| Antonyms: | confident, unabashed, unshy |
| 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retiring, self-conscious, sheepish, shrinking, shy, suspicious, timid, timorous, unassuming, unobtrusive, unsure, withdrawn, blenching, constrained, flinching, rabbity, self-effacing, unassertive, unassured, unpoised |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: | ill at ease |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not feeling at ease |
| Synonyms: | anxious, apprehensive, awkward, disturbed, doubtful, edgy, fidgety, hesitant, insecure, nervous, nervous, on edge*, on edge, restless, self-conscious, shy, suspicious, tense, uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettled, unsure, discomfited, disquieted, faltering, on pins and needles, on pins and needles, on tenterhooks, out of place, unrelaxed |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, content, at ease |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inhibited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | cold, frustrated, guarded, hung up*, reserved, reticent, self-conscious, subdued, unresponsive, uptight, withdrawn, bottled up, constrained, passionless, repressed, undemonstrative |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, bold, forward, immodest, self-confident |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, put-on |
| Synonyms: | apish*, artificial, chichi*, conscious, posed, pretentious, self-conscious, stilted, unnatural, airish, artsy, campy, gone Hollywood, highfaluting*, stuck up |
| Antonyms: | natural, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sheepish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy, embarrassed |
| Synonyms: | abashed, ashamed, diffident, docile, foolish, guilty, retiring, self-conscious, shamefaced, silly, tame, timid, timorous, uncomfortable, chagrined, mortified |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, bold, unashamed, unembarrassed |
| Main Entry: | strained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forced, pretended |
| Synonyms: | artificial, awkward, difficult, embarrassed, false, farfetched, labored, put, self-conscious, stiff, taut, tense, tight, uncomfortable, uneasy, unnatural, uptight, wired*, wreck*, at end of rope, choked, constrained, hard put, in a state, nervous wreck, strung out, unglued, unrelaxed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill (at ease) |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncomfortable |
| Synonyms: | anxious, awkward, disturbed, doubtful, edgy, fidgety, hesitant, nervous, on edge, restless, self-conscious, suspicious, tense, uneasy, unsettled, unsure, discomfited, disquieted, faltering, on tenterhooks, unrelaxed |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, at ease |
| Main Entry: | humble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meek, unassuming |
| Synonyms: | apprehensive, backward, bashful, blushing, content, courteous, deferential, demure, diffident, docile, fearful, gentle, hesitant, lowly, manageable, mild, modest, obliging, obsequious, ordinary, polite, quiet, reserved, respectful, retiring, sedate, self-conscious, servile, sheepish, shy, simple, soft-spoken, standoffish, submissive, subservient, tentative, timid, timorous, tractable, unobtrusive, unpretentious, withdrawn, biddable, reverential, self-effacing, supplicatory, unambitious, unostentatious |
| Antonyms: | assertive, boasting, brave, conceited, insolent, pretentious, proud, showy, egotistical |
| 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: | affected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changed in a bad or artificial way |
| Synonyms: | apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham*, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | affected, calculated, deliberate, knowing, mannered, premeditated, rational, reasoning, reflective, responsible, self-conscious, studied, willful |
| Notes: | conscience is the noun meaning 'a sense of right and wrong' while conscious is the adjective meaning 'aware of something, being awake' |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unconscious, unfeeling, unintentional, unstudied, not deliberate |
| Main Entry: | uncomfortable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressed, upset |
| Synonyms: | angry, annoyed, awkward, cheerless, confused, disturbed, embarrassed, exhausted, fatigued, harsh, hurt, ill at ease, miserable, nervous, pained, restless, self-conscious, sore, stiff, strained, suffering, tired, troubled, uneasy, weary, worn, wretched, aching, anguished, chafed, comfortless, discomfited, discomposed, disquieted, galled, in pain, smarting, vexed, wracked |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, content, happy |
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