All self-conscious synonyms
self-conΒ·scious
S s adj self-conscious
- inhibited β overly restrained.
- highfaluting β pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- mannered β having manners as specified (usually used in combination): ill-mannered people.
- hammy β characteristic of a person who overacts.
- campy β Campy means the same as camp.
- modest β having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- artsy β Artsy means the same as arty.
- bashful β Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- ill at ease β of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
- affected β If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- in state β to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- la-di-da β affected; pretentious; foppish: a la-di-da manner.
- in a state β distraught
- diffident β lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
- hamer β Fannie Lou, 1917β77, U.S. civil rights activist.
- conscious β If you are conscious of something, you notice it or realize that it is happening.
- hard put β not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- campiest β of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- airish β given to putting on airs.
- anguished β Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
noun self-conscious
- inhibition β the act of inhibiting.
- bashfulness β The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- confusion β If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- awkwardness β lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- diffidence β the quality or state of being diffident.
- hangup β Alternative spelling of hang-up.
- disconcertion β to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- mousiness β The property of being mousy.
- embarrassment β A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
adverb self-conscious
adjective self-conscious
- chichi β If you say that something is chichi, you mean that it is pretty or stylish, especially in a way that you consider affected.
- discomfited β Make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed.
- humble β not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- rabbity β any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- wrecker β a person or thing that wrecks.
- awkward β An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- embarrassed β Feeling or showing embarrassment.
- constrained β embarrassed, unnatural, or forced