Antonyms for self-conscious

Grammar : Adj

Spell : self-kon-shuh s, self-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛlfˈkɒn ʃəs, ˌsɛlf-

Definition of self-conscious

Origin : 1680s, "aware of one's action," a word of the English Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self- + conscious. Morbid sense of "preoccupied with one's own personality" is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill). Related: Self-consciously; self-consciousness.

adj insecure with oneself

Example sentences :

In this vast but connected universe we are not the only self-conscious beings.
Extract from : « The Comrade In White » by W. H. Leathem

The boy drew himself up with a self-conscious air as he replied.
Extract from : « Almost A Man » by Mary Wood-Allen

This power, the army, was organized in the council and was self-conscious.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various

But the bulk of the players, though all were earnest and fervent, were clumsy or self-conscious.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

If she hadn't been self-conscious she would never have said such a thing as that.
Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Nowadays, alas, we start off self-conscious, with sex in the head.
Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence

Fight your wife out of her own self-conscious preoccupation with herself.
Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence

This is what is happening in the West, in our self-conscious and critical age.
Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes

Just then their eyes met, and Frank coloured a little, as if self-conscious.
Extract from : « In the Mahdi's Grasp » by George Manville Fenn

We are all absurd; but we are not all artists, because we are not all self-conscious.
Extract from : « The Green Carnation » by Robert Smythe Hichens

Synonyms for self-conscious

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