283 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ʌnɐsˈɜːtɪv], [ ʌnɐsˈɜːtɪv], [ ʌ_n_ɐ_s_ˈɜː_t_ɪ_v]

Similar words for unassertive:

• all (adjective)
• bashful (adjective)
• coy (adjective)
• demure (adjective)
• diffident (adjective)
• fainthearted (adjective)
• henpecked (adjective)
• modest (adjective)
• mousy (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• passive (adjective)
• resigned (adjective)
• retiring (adjective)
• self-effacing (adjective)
• shy (adjective)
• timid (adjective)
• timorous (adjective)
• nonassertive (noun)
• other synonyms
• meek
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Unassertive:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • unassertive.
  • bashful (adjective)
  • blushing,
  • confused,
  • humble,
  • silent,
  • backward,
  • chary,
  • shamefaced,
  • reticent,
  • self-conscious,
  • embarrassed,
  • shrinking,
  • Recoiling,
  • self-effacing,
  • sheepish,
  • timorous,
  • abashed,
  • constrained,
  • reserved,
  • nervous,
  • Verecund.
  • coy (adjective)
  • evasive,
  • coquettish,
  • prudish,
  • kittenish,
  • skittish,
  • flirtatious.
  • demure (adjective)
  • earnest,
  • nice,
  • prissy,
  • solemn,
  • close,
  • unassuming,
  • prim,
  • sedate,
  • proper,
  • serious,
  • staid,
  • sober,
  • decorous,
  • strait-laced.
  • diffident (adjective)
  • doubtful,
  • Blenching,
  • Unpoised,
  • withdrawn,
  • reluctant,
  • meek,
  • insecure,
  • unobtrusive,
  • dubious,
  • Flinching,
  • unsure,
  • distrustful,
  • suspicious.
  • fainthearted (adjective)
  • cowardly,
  • weak,
  • having cold feet,
  • spineless,
  • frightened,
  • fearful,
  • cowering,
  • intimidated,
  • cowed,
  • yellow,
  • lily-livered,
  • afraid,
  • gutless.
  • henpecked (adjective)
  • Nagged,
  • led by the nose,
  • under one's thumb,
  • under thumb,
  • subjected to nagging,
  • in fear of one's wife,
  • dominated,
  • wife-ridden.
  • modest (adjective)
  • lowly,
  • prudent,
  • withdrawing,
  • Unboastful,
  • unpretentious,
  • seemly,
  • discreet,
  • chaste,
  • temperate,
  • quiet,
  • undemonstrative,
  • unpresuming,
  • moderate,
  • simple,
  • unselfish,
  • unpretending,
  • selfless.
  • mousy (adjective)
  • dull,
  • colorless,
  • pale,
  • ineffectual,
  • plain,
  • indeterminate.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • coy,
  • bashful,
  • diffident,
  • unassured,
  • mousy,
  • shy,
  • nongregarious,
  • blushful,
  • passive,
  • wimpy,
  • demure,
  • Unaffable,
  • unambitious,
  • unsocial,
  • over-modest,
  • overmodest,
  • resigned,
  • rabbity,
  • unexpansive,
  • modest,
  • uneffusive,
  • not forward,
  • timid,
  • non-gregarious,
  • uneager,
  • fainthearted,
  • retiring.
  • passive (adjective)
  • cool,
  • poker-faced,
  • enduring,
  • flat,
  • going through motions,
  • laid back,
  • uninvolved,
  • nonviolent,
  • laid-back,
  • indifferent,
  • moony,
  • static,
  • quiescent,
  • phlegmatic,
  • sleepy,
  • hands off,
  • walking through it,
  • stolid,
  • inert,
  • asleep,
  • non-resistant,
  • apathetic,
  • latent,
  • unflappable,
  • non-violent,
  • idle,
  • bearing,
  • motionless.
  • resigned (adjective)
  • biddable,
  • relinquishing,
  • calm,
  • cordial,
  • willing,
  • ready,
  • philosophical,
  • reconciled,
  • Renouncing,
  • satisfied,
  • unprotesting,
  • genial,
  • peaceable,
  • well-disposed,
  • adapted,
  • adjusted,
  • Accommodated,
  • stoical.
  • retiring (adjective)
  • restrained,
  • reclusive,
  • recessive,
  • unsociable.
  • self-effacing (adjective)
  • selfeffacing,
  • self effacing.
  • shy (adjective)
  • cautious,
  • hesitant,
  • unresponsive,
  • loner,
  • unwilling,
  • wary,
  • circumspect,
  • loath,
  • indisposed,
  • conscious,
  • introverted,
  • introvert,
  • disinclined,
  • averse,
  • apprehensive.
  • timid (adjective)
  • bullied,
  • capricious,
  • milquetoast,
  • unnerved,
  • ambivalent,
  • wavering,
  • daunted,
  • soft,
  • shaky,
  • spiritless,
  • vacillating,
  • trembling,
  • browbeaten,
  • Badgered.
  • timorous (adjective)
  • tentative,
  • shuddering,
  • faint,
  • tremulous.

• n.

  • nonassertive (noun)
  • nonassertive.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • henpecked.
  • meek
  • docile.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • bovine,
  • receptive,
  • gentle,
  • abject,
  • yielding,
  • low-key,
  • pliant,
  • impotent,
  • wishy-washy,
  • feckless,
  • inconspicuous,
  • submissive,
  • pliable,
  • unnoticeable,
  • uncomplaining,
  • feeble,
  • wimpish,
  • unresistant,
  • complaisant,
  • patient,
  • repressed,
  • compliant,
  • complying,
  • subdued,
  • consenting,
  • malleable,
  • unaggressive,
  • lamblike,
  • servile,
  • tame,
  • supine,
  • irresolute,
  • Compliable,
  • under control,
  • tractable,
  • acquiescent,
  • flexible,
  • ineffective,
  • nonresistant,
  • white-livered,
  • amenable,
  • receding,
  • incompetent,
  • deferential,
  • inept,
  • suppressed,
  • self-doubting,
  • accepting,
  • mild,
  • chicken,
  • faint-hearted,
  • assenting,
  • accommodating,
  • pusillanimous,
  • subservient,
  • nonaggressive,
  • Ovine,
  • tolerant,
  • long-suffering,
  • agreeable,
  • unostentatious,
  • obedient,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • unresisting,
  • Nonresisting,
  • craven,
  • forbearing,
  • ambitionless,
  • namby-pamby,
  • manageable.