Antonyms for unassertive
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : uh-sur-tiv |
Phonetic Transcription : əˈsɜr tɪv |
- able
- active
- adequate
- aggressive
- agitated
- arrogant
- assured
- beautiful
- bent
- boisterous
- bold
- brave
- brazen
- calm
- careless
- caring
- complex
- complicated
- conceited
- concerned
- confident
- courageous
- daring
- demonstrative
- disposed
- dynamic
- eager
- egotistical
- enough
- excited
- extraordinary
- extroverted
- fancy
- fearless
- fixed-up
- flaunting
- forthcoming
- forward
- friendly
- heedless
- immodest
- impatient
- impudent
- incautious
- inclined
- indiscreet
- interested
- intolerant
- intricate
- lively
- loud
- obtrusive
- ostentatious
- outgoing
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- proud
- rash
- rough
- roused
- self-confident
- shameless
- sociable
- strong
- sufficient
- troubled
- unabashed
- unafraid
- unashamed
- uncareful
- unfearful
- unlimited
- unprepared
- unreserved
- unshy
- unwilling
- unworried
- violent
- wild
- willing
Definition of unassertive
Origin :- 1560s, "declaratory, positive, full of assertion," from assert + -ive. Meaning "insisting on one's rights" is short for self-assertive (1865).
- As in modest : adj shy
- As in mousy : adj drab; quiet
- As in passive : adj lifeless, inactive
- As in resigned : adj enduring, passive
- As in retiring : adj shy, undemonstrative
- As in shy : adj quiet and self-conscious
- As in bashful : adj shy
- As in timid : adj shy
- As in unassuming : adj shy
- As in henpecked : adj dominated by one's wife
- As in timorous : adj afraid
- As in self-effacing : adj modest
- As in coy : adj very modest
- As in demure : adj reserved, affected
- As in diffident : adj hesitant; unconfident
- As in fainthearted : adj timid
- That the squatters did not themselves recognise the worth of one so unassertive was not to be wondered at.
- Extract from : « Australian Writers » by Desmond Byrne
- He was an unassertive, unassuming man, with a genius for being inconspicuous.
- Extract from : « John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes » by John Masefield
- Would not he too have been melancholy, quiet, unassertive, almost as uninteresting and uninterested as Booth was?
- Extract from : « The Story of My Life » by Ellen Terry
- The Eversleighs were very fond of their house, and, in an unassertive way, proud of it.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn » by Robert Machray
- Her beauty was not heightened now, but it was displayed with all the grave consciousness of an unassertive renown.
- Extract from : « Sinister Street, vol. 2 » by Compton Mackenzie
- In her mind she fixed him in contrast with Transley, the self-confident and aggressive, and Linder, the shy and unassertive.
- Extract from : « Dennison Grant » by Robert Stead
- Mrs. Shelley walked to a mirror and looked thoughtfully at her unassertive reflection.
- Extract from : « The Education of Eric Lane » by Stephen McKenna
Synonyms for unassertive
- abashed
- accommodated
- acquiescent
- adapted
- adjusted
- afraid
- agreeable
- ambivalent
- amenable
- apathetic
- apprehensive
- asleep
- averse
- backward
- badgered
- bashful
- bearing
- biddable
- blenching
- blushful
- blushing
- browbeaten
- bullied
- calm
- capricious
- cautious
- chary
- chaste
- circumspect
- close
- colorless
- compliant
- confused
- conscious
- constrained
- cool
- coquettish
- cordial
- cowardly
- cowed
- cowering
- coy
- daunted
- decorous
- deferential
- demure
- diffident
- discreet
- disinclined
- distrustful
- docile
- dominated
- doubtful
- dubious
- dull
- earnest
- embarrassed
- enduring
- evasive
- faint
- fainthearted
- fearful
- feeble
- flat
- flinching
- flirtatious
- forbearing
- frightened
- genial
- gentle
- going through motions
- gutless
- hands off
- having cold feet
- hesitant
- humble
- idle
- in fear of one's wife
- indeterminate
- indifferent
- indisposed
- ineffectual
- inert
- insecure
- intimidated
- introvert
- introverted
- irresolute
- kittenish
- laid-back
- latent
- led by the nose
- lily-livered
- loath
- loner
- long-suffering
- lowly
- manageable
- meek
- Milquetoast
- moderate
- modest
- moony
- motionless
- mousy
- nagged
- nervous
- nice
- nongregarious
- nonresistant
- nonresisting
- nonviolent
- not forward
- obedient
- overmodest
- pale
- passive
- patient
- peaceable
- philosophical
- phlegmatic
- plain
- pliant
- poker-faced
- prim
- prissy
- proper
- prudent
- prudish
- pusillanimous
- quiescent
- quiet
- rabbity
- ready
- receptive
- recessive
- reclusive
- recoiling
- reconciled
- relinquishing
- reluctant
- renouncing
- reserved
- resigned
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- satisfied
- sedate
- seemly
- self-conscious
- self-effacing
- serious
- shaky
- shamefaced
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shuddering
- shy
- silent
- simple
- skittish
- sleepy
- sober
- soft
- solemn
- spineless
- spiritless
- staid
- static
- stoical
- stolid
- strait-laced
- subdued
- subjected to nagging
- submissive
- subservient
- suspicious
- tame
- temperate
- tentative
- timid
- timorous
- tolerant
- tractable
- trembling
- tremulous
- unaffable
- unambitious
- unassertive
- unassuming
- unassured
- unboastful
- under one's thumb
- uneager
- uneffusive
- unexpansive
- unflappable
- uninvolved
- unnerved
- unobtrusive
- unostentatious
- unpoised
- unpresuming
- unpretending
- unpretentious
- unprotesting
- unresisting
- unresponsive
- unsociable
- unsocial
- unsure
- unwilling
- vacillating
- verecund
- walking through it
- wary
- wavering
- weak
- well-disposed
- wife-ridden
- willing
- wimpy
- withdrawing
- withdrawn
- yellow
- yielding
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