Synonyms of self-deprecating

self-deprecating

adjective

as in humble

formal meant to make yourself or the things you do seem unimportant

He spoke in a self-deprecating tone.

self-deprecating humor

Related Words

• humble
• meek
• self-deprecatory
• self-effacing
• subdued
• unassuming
• down-to-earth
• modest
• aw-shucks
• unpretentious
• simple
• deferential
• unassertive
• timid
• quiet
• demure
• lowly
• submissive
• resigned
• acquiescent
• compliant
• unaggressive
• passive
• unaffected
• yielding
• shrinking
• reserved
• ingenuous
• naive
• sheepish
• bashful
• cringing
• diffident
• plain
• unobtrusive
• introverted
• shy
• cowering
• mousy
• retiring
• overmodest

Dissimilar Words

• aggressive
• cheeky
• assertive
• impudent
• confident
• cocky
• saucy
• brash
• brassy
• audacious
• bold
• narcissistic
• impertinent
• overconfident
• smug
• forward
• cocksure
• hubristic
• egocentric
• boastful
• prideful
• egoistic
• vain
• condescending
• bombastic
• vainglorious
• dominant
• swaggering
• patronizing
• disdainful
• self-confident
• overbearing
• domineering
• flamboyant
• showy
• self-centered
• self-congratulatory
• self-important
• self-satisfied
• arrogant
• ostentatious
• outgoing
• magisterial
• self-obsessed
• uninhibited
• self-contented
• self-engrossed
• self-complacent
• self-conceited
• braggy
• dominating
• extroverted
• pretentious
• haughty
• pompous
• stuck-up
• supercilious
• conceited
• self-affected
• unreserved
• self-pleased
• presumptuous
• superior
• immodest
• bumptious
• swelled-headed
• egotistic
• imperious
• peremptory
• high-and-mighty
• uppity
• huffy
• high-handed
• uppish
• overweening
• highfalutin
• pontificating
• high-hat
• chesty
• lordly
• presuming
• self-assertive
• self-asserting
• hoity-toity
• huffish
• toplofty
• fastuous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of self-deprecating

What started as an idea for a variety show about her life in late 2017 became a bawdy, self-deprecating song-and-dance extravaganza following her arrest that Christmas Eve. — Luisa Opalesky, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

That self-deprecating description opens Tony, writer-director Matt Johnson’s movie about the one crazy summer that changed a thoughtless young lout’s life; for good measure, the quote does double duty as the tagline on the film’s poster. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Neill was, by all accounts, a veritable Mensch with a warmly low-key and self-deprecating personality. — ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026

Their satire is both self-deprecating and externally critical. — Cassidy Sollazzo, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026