demure
demure is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. A cat lay, and looked so demure, as if there had been neither life nor soul in her. L'Estrange. Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.
- 2.To look demurely. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- background
- bashful
- bashfulness
- beat
- blush
- blushing
- bushel
- candle
- cast
- ceremony
- constrained
- constraint
- countenance
- coy
- demureness
- diffidence
- diffident
- disposition
- distance
- draw
- drum
- eye
- face
- fame
- find
- give
- good
- hide
- humble
- humbly
- humility
- keep
- light
- merit
- modest
- modesty
- nervous
- noiseless
- not
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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