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.
• 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.
• PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being presumptuous.
• 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.