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1 Demure -- rank: 1000

Demure definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DEMURE, a. Sober; grave; modest; downcast; as a demure countenance; a demure abasing of the eye. DEMURE, v.i. To look with a grave countenance. WordNet (r ... shy especially in a playful or provocative way [syn: coy, demure, overmodest] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Middle English Date: ...

2 Prim -- rank: 450

... origin unknown Date: 1706 1. to give a prim or demure expression to < primming her thin lips after every mouthful — John ... stiffly formal and precise. 2 (of a woman or girl) demure. 3 prudish. --v.tr. (primmed, primming) 1 form (the face ... a. Formal, stiff, precise, starch, starched, strait-laced, affectedly nice, demure. II. n. Privet, print (Ligustrum vulgare). Moby Thesaurus Quakerish, Victorian, bluenosed, buckram, censorious, ceremonial, ceremonious, chipper, conventional, correct, decorous, demure, formal, genteel, hidebound, in buckram, mid-Victorian, narrow, neat, nice ...

3 Demurely -- rank: 450

... end. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a demure manner; "the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a ... quick side-glance at her" Merriam Webster's adverb see demure Webster's 1913 Dictionary Demurely De*mure"ly, adv. In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of ... matter to laugh unseasonably. --Dryden. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see demure

4 Coy -- rank: 388

... shy especially in a playful or provocative way [syn: coy, demure, overmodest] 2: showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness ... Synonyms a. Modest, diffident, shy, shrinking, timid, bashful, reserved, distant, demure. Moby Thesaurus amative, amatory, arch, bashful, capricious, caressive, confused, conscious, coquettish, decent, decorous, demure, diffident, flirtatious, flirty, inarticulate, kittenish, lively, mischievous, mousy, nice, playful ...

5 Demureness -- rank: 388

... behaving with reserve and decorum 2: the affectation of being demure in a provocative way [syn: coyness, demureness] Merriam Webster's noun see demure Webster's 1913 Dictionary Demureness De*mure"ness (d[-e ... u]r"n[e^]s), n. The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.

6 Sedate -- rank: 307

... serene, tranquil, still, unruffled, undisturbed, settled, imperturbable, sober, serious, staid, demure, cool, philosophical, contemplative, grave, thoughtful. Moby Thesaurus anesthetize, aristocratic, august, calm, collected, composed, controlled, conventional, cool, courtly, decorous, demure, detached, dignified, dispassionate, dope, drug, earnest, entrance, even-tempered, formal ...

7 Staid -- rank: 307

... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Sober, grave, steady, serious, composed, demure, solemn, calm, settled, sedate. Moby Thesaurus arid, barren, calm, collected, composed, cool, decorous, demure, dignified, dry, dull, earnest, earthbound, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim ...

8 Sober -- rank: 307

... collected, well-regulated, temperate, reasonable. 5. Grave, solemn, serious, sedate, demure, staid, quiet, sombre. 6. Quiet, dull-looking, sad, dark, sombre ... gray, dark, dark-colored, darkish, darksome, decorous, deliberating, deliberative, delicate, demure, detoxify, dignified, dingy, direct, disciplined, dismal, dispassionate, dove-colored, dove ...

9 Retiring -- rank: 307

... of English Synonyms a. 1. Withdrawing, retreating. 2. Reserved, shy, demure, diffident, modest, coy. Moby Thesaurus Olympian, aloof, aseptic, backward, bashful ... concaved, constrained, cool, coy, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, declining, demure, detached, diffident, diminishing, discreet, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, distant ...

10 Reserved -- rank: 307

... cold, incommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, distant. 3. Shy, coy, taciturn, modest, demure. Moby Thesaurus Olympian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aloof, antisocial, aposiopestic, backward ... condensed, conserved, constrained, contracted, controlled, conventional, cool, crisp, curt, cut, demure, detached, diffident, dignified, discreet, distant, docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressionless, forbidding ...

11 Prudish -- rank: 307

... prudishness. = prudery Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Coy, demure, reserved, over-modest, affectedly modest or nice, very formal, precise ... Thesaurus Quakerish, Victorian, austere, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, decorous, demure, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formal, fussy, genteel, hidebound, meticulous, mid ...

12 Serious -- rank: 307

... English Synonyms a. 1. Grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest, demure. 2. Important, weighty, great, momentous, grave. 3. In earnest. 4 ... dangerous, dangersome, decided, decisive, decorous, dedicated, deep, definite, deliberating, deliberative, demure, determined, devoted, devout, difficult, dignified, dour, earnest, elevated, excogitating, exhaustive ...

13 Grave -- rank: 307

... under Accent, n., 2. Syn: Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important. Usage: Grave, Sober, Serious, Solemn ... six, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, degraded, demise, demure, departure, depraved, despicable, destructive, dignified, dire, dirty, disgusting, dismal, dissolution ...

14 Modest -- rank: 194

... common, consecrated, constrained, cool, coy, decent, decorous, dedicated, delicate, demeaning, demure, demurring, detached, devoted, diffident, disadvantaged, discreet, disinterested, distant, dry, dull ...

15 Maidenly -- rank: 194

... Maidenly Maid"en*ly, adv. In a maidenlike manner. ``Maidenly demure.'' --Skelton. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Modest, gentle ...