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self-doubt |
self-drive |
self-educated |
self-education |
self-effacement |
self-effacing
| self-elective
| self-employed
| self-employed person
| self-enclosed
| self-enjoyment
self-effacing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective self-effacing has 1 sense
- self-effacing(s = adj.all) reticent, retiring - reluctant to draw attention to yourself; Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-effacing, adj. retiring; modest; timid.
Derivative
self-effacement n. self-effacingly adv.
THESAURUS
self-effacing
altruistic, backward, bashful, committed, consecrated, dedicated, deprecative, deprecatory, devoted, diffident, disinterested, humble, modest, rabbity, retiring, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-deprecating, self-depreciating, self-depreciative, self-devoted, self-distrustful, self-doubting, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, shy, timid, unacquisitive, unassertive, unassured, unpossessive, unpretentious, unselfconfident, unselfish, unselfreliant, unsparing of self
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