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demure
Synonyms and Antonyms of demure
- the previously demure maiden began making some surprisingly shocking remarks
- hesitant and demure, she hardly spoke a word at the banquet table
boon, clubbable (also clubable), companionable, convivial, gregarious, sociable, social
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest, outgoing
- wore a very demure outfit to the interview for the job at the church's headquarters
acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, yielding
ingenuous, naive (or naïve), plain, simple, unaffected
bashful, diffident, introverted, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, sheepish, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusive
aw-shucks, self-deprecating, self-deprecatory, self-effacing
aggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucy
cocksure, cocky, confident, hubristic, overconfident, self-confident
egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), narcissistic, prideful, self-affected, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-engrossed, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed
boastful, bombastic, braggy, swaggering, vain, vainglorious
condescending, disdainful, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, overbearing, patronizing, pontificating
flamboyant, ostentatious, showy
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest, outgoing, uninhibited, unreserved
arrogant, bumptious, chesty, conceited, egotistic (or egotistical), fastuous, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
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