Word Meanings - SELF-CONSCIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. "My self-conscious worth." Dryden. 2. Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-CONSCIOUS)
- Prim
- Formal
- precise
- demure
- starched
- stiff
- self-conscious
- unbending
- priggish
- Proud
- Arrogant
- haughty
- imperious
- supercilious
- presumptuous
- boastful
- vain glorious
- vain
- ostentatious
- elated
- self-satisfied
- lofty
- imposing
- magnificent
Related words: (words related to SELF-CONSCIOUS)
- MAGNIFICENTLY
In a Magnificent manner. - FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - DEMURE
good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest - IMPOSABLE
Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond. - PROUDLING
A proud or haughty person. Sylvester. - ELATION
A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - PROUD
prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; - STARCHER
One who starches. - BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n. - IMPOSINGNESS
The quality of being imposing. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller. - IMPOSTURAGE
Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor. - PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
The quality or state of being presumptuous. - IMPOSTOR
One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver. - ARROGANTLY
In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance. - IMPOSTHUMATION
1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe. - PROUDISH
Somewhat proud. Ash. - STIFF
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - MANDELATE
A salt of mandelic acid. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - GELATIFICATION
The formation of gelatin. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - CRENELATION
The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - ANHELATION
Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill. - SPHACELATE
To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.