Demure

Definition: Demure

Demure

Adjective

1. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "demure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Demure

Affectation

Stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.

Dejection

Serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.

Excitability

Adjective: inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible; (insensible); unpassionate, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring; Verb: stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed.

Modesty

Out of countenance; (humbled). reserved, constrained, demure.

Unbelief Doubt

Doubt; (uncertainty); skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust, mistrust, cynicism; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi.

Demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.

Crosswords: Demure

Books

• Case of the Demure Defendant / Large Print [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• The Ghost and Ms. Demure (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Demure (reference)

• L'Amour Demure Stenhousemuir (A Compilat [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He saw a short word prepared for Emma, and given to her with a look sly and demure.

Girls demure and romping

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

serioz (bad, crying, deep, dress, earnest, grave, heavy, nasty, reliable, serious, solemn, weighty), modest (decent, decently, diffident, discreet, humble, lowly, modest, neat, quiet, unassertive, unobtrusive, unpretentious), i përmbajtur (aloof, composed, continent, controlled, cool-headed, decent, discreet, even tempered, modest, passionless, restrained, sedate, self-collected, sober minded, staid, stand off, strange, temperate, unaffable, undemonstrative), gjoja i hutuar, gjoja i druajtur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏محتشم (bashful, chaste, coy, decent, decorous, honest, modest, reserved, shy), ‏مترازن, ‏متظاهر بالرزانة, ‏رزين (calm, grave, level, level headed, matronly, portentous, sedate, serious, sober, sober minded, staid, stoical). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скромен (abstemious, chaste, conservative, decent, decorous, frugal, humble, maidenlike, maidenly, mean, modest, obscure, quakerish, quiet, retiring, shamefaced, simple, small, unambitious, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious), въздържан (abstemious, inaccessible, incommunicative, moderate, self contained), престорено скромен. (various references)

Chinese 

娴静. (various references)

Czech

upejavý, stydlivý (bashful, cockshy, coy), skromný (abstemious, frugal, humble, limited, lowly, modest, reserved, retiring, unassuming, unpretentious), ostýchavý (backward, bashful, coy, diffident, prim, self conscious, shamefaced, shy). (various references)

Dutch

uitgestreken (academic), quasi-zedig, quasi-preuts. (various references)

Esperanto

kvazaŭpruda, kvazaŭdecmora, kvazaŭĉasta. (various references)

Farsi 

موقر (Grave, Sedate, Sober, Solemn, Staid), محتاط (Cautious, Chary, Considerate, Gingerly, Scrupulous), متین (Douce, Placid, Sedate, Serene, Sober), سنگین (Burdensome, Cumbersome, Earnest, Grave, Heavy, Hefty, Laden, Lumpy, Onerous, Ponderous, Sober, Staid, Stodgy, Unwieldy, Weighty), جدی (Bonafide, Drastic, Earnest, Energetic, Grand, Rigid, Sedate, Serious, Solemn, Stickler, Uncanny). (various references)

Finnish

eleetön (expressionless, unassuming). (various references)

French

sage, modeste. (various references)

German

zimperlich (finicky, mincing, modest, nervous, prissy, prudish, puling, soft, squeamish). (various references)

Greek 

σεμνόσ (bashful, decent, humble, maidenly, modest, unpretending), σεμνότυφοσ (priggish, prude, prudish, straitlaced, tight laced), σεμνός (coy, modest, unassuming), σοβαρόσ (burning, earnest, grave, important, matronal, matronly, saturnine, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, staid), μαζεμένος, χαμηλοβλέπων, φαινομενικά σεμνόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצט� ע (prim, prudish), רצי� י (deep, earnest, grave, important, serious, severe), צ� וע (homely, humble, lowly, meek, modest, neat, prude, unassuming). (various references)

Hungarian

negédesen finomkodó, kiegyensúlyozott (balanced, consistent, equal, even tempered, even-minded, level, level-headed, steady, well balanced), illedelmes (comely, decent, decorous, mannered, proper, well-behaved, well-conducted), higgadt (collected, composed, cool-headed, even tempered, grave, impassible, imperturbable, level headed, level-headed, moderate, philosophical, placid, quiescent, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, self-possessed, serene, sober, sober-blooded, staid, unperturbed), álszemérmes (modest, prude, prudish). (various references)

Indonesian

berkeberatan (have objections). (various references)

Italian

schivo (averse, coy, reserved, retiring, shamefaced, shy), modesto (chaste, coy, diffident, homely, humble, inconspicuous, lowly, moderate, modest, plain, quiet, self-effacing, temperate, unassuming, unpretentious), contegnoso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

澄ます (look prim, put on, to be unruffled, to clear, to look demure, to look unconcerned, to make clear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すます (look prim, put on airs, to be unruffled, to clear, to conclude, to finish, to get along, to get it over with, to look demure, to look unconcerned, to make clear, to pay back, to settle). (various references)

Manx

nearildagh (ashamed, bashful, confused, coy, coy of girl, retiring, shy). (various references)

Norwegian

anstendig. (various references)

Pig Latin

emureday.(various references)

Portuguese

decente (comely, decent, decorous, honest, seemly), sério (abstemious, austere, convinced, earnest, fair, important, respectable, sedate, serious, severe, single-eyed, single-minded, sober, solemn, staid, stern, straight, straightaway, straightforward, temperate, thoughtful), reservado (aloof, box, cagey, chilly, close, closet, confidential, distant, exclusive, freezing, incommunicative, long run, non-committal, offish, particular, qualified, repulsive, reserved, reticent, retiring, secretive, self-contained, separate, shy, special, stand-off, stand-offish, taciturn, unamenable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative), modesto (blushful, coy, homely, humble, lowly, modest, plain, self-effacing, shamefaced, unassertive, unassuming, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), acanhado (backward, diffluent, gauche, hidebound, narrow, poky, poor-spirited, scary, scrimpy, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, skimpy, timid). (various references)

Romanian

de o modestie afectatã, sfios (backward, bashful, coy, faint-hearted, maiden, maidenlike, maidenly, meek, milky, mousy, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), serios (appreciable, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted), mofturos (dainty, fastidious, finical, finicking, fractious, Froward, humoursome, naughty, nice, particular, peevish, perverse, picky, qualmish, squeamish), modest (cheap, diffident, discreet, frugal, grave, homely, humble, humbly, low, lowly, maiden, maidenly, modest, plain, quakerish, quiet, retiring, simple, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpretending, unpretentious), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian 

степенный;застенчивый, скромный (decent, hamble, humble, low life, mean, modest, self-effacing, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), сдержанный (chary, checked, continent, distant, frozen, guarded, modest, restrained, reticent, self-collected, stand off, stand offish, stand-offish, undemonstrative, unsociable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stidljiv (bashful, blushful, coy, shamefaced, shy, timid, trembly), povučen (aloof, coy, recluse, remote, reticent, retiring, undemonstrative, unobtrusive, withdrawn), izveštačeno ozbiljan. (various references)

Spanish

de una coquetería disimulada, solemne (ceremonial, conclusive, dignified, official, owlish, ritually, solemn, vow), serio (businesslike, dependable, earnest, heavy, meaningful, responsible, serious, serious minded, severe, sober, sober minded, staid, thinking, thoughtful, unsmiling), remilgado (mincing, old-maidish, prim, prissy, prude, squeamish), recatado (cautions, coy, gingerly, maidenly, prim), modoso (civilized), modesto (inconspicuous, lower, modest, modeste, retiring, unassuming, undemanding, unostentatious, unpretentious), grave (acute, alarming, bad, court, courtyard, deep, desperate, difficult, dignified, grave, grievous, grim, gross, heavy, important, low, lower, nasty, serious, severe, weighty, yard). (various references)

Swedish

pryd (coy, prude, prudish). (various references)

Turkish

sözde mahcup, ciddi (austere, businesslike, capital, critical, devout, earnest, eventful, forbidding, grave, gut, important, momentous, mortally, sedate, serious, sober, sober minded, solemn, staid, starched, unsmiling), ağırbaşlı (austere, calm, dignified, earnest, graceful, grand, imperturbable, matronly, only, sage, sedate, serious, sober, sober minded, solemn, staid), ölçülü (careful, conservative, continent, dimensional, level, measurable, measured, mensurable, moderate, restrained, size, sized, sober, sober minded, temperate), çekingen (backward, bashful, coy, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, faint, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, reserved, retiring, shrinking, shy, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

Ukrainian

стриманий (abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, continent, coy, discreet, dry, guarded, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, spartan, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), удавано сором'язливий, скромний (bashful, blushing, chaste, coy, decent, discreet, humble, lowly, maidenlike, maidenly, modest, nice, quiet, retiring, sedate, simple, spare, unobtrusive), серйозний (deep, earnest, serious, serious minded, solemn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nghiêm trang (matronal, matronlike, matronly, serious), bẽn lẽn (bashful, coy, shamefaced, sheepish, shily, shy, shyly, timid). (various references)

maturus. (various references)

meur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "demure": demurely, demureness, demurenesses, demurer, demurest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Demure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dalmore, damire, Damiri, Damur, daumer, dejur, dejure, Delmore, demare, demear, demere, Demetri, Demeure, Demir, demire, demiur, demorr, demoure, Demoze, demurge, demurr, demuse, dendre, Dengra, dennure, denure, desmoret, Deurle, Dimitra, Dimitru, Dimove, dmeur, Domaru, Doumer, dumure, Dymmoke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: demur, merde, mured.

-2 letters: deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dree, drum, dure, emeu, meed, mere, mure, rede, reed, rude, rued.

-3 letters: dee, due, eme, emu, ere, med, mud, red, ree, rem, rue, rum, urd.

-4 letters: de, ed, em, er, me, mu, re, um.

+1 letter: demurer, embrued, relumed, resumed, umbered.

+2 letters: bumpered, cumbered, demiurge, demurely, demurest, demurred, demurrer, embruted, lumbered, measured, murdered, murderee, murderer, mustered, muttered, numbered, perfumed, permuted, presumed, repumped, summered, udometer.

+3 letters: admeasure, credendum, demeanour, demiurges, demurrage, demurrers, deuterium, durometer, empurpled, enamoured, maundered, maunderer, mouldered, mufflered, murderees, murderers, murderess, murthered, numerated, reassumed, relumined, remounted, replumbed, slumbered, submerged, submersed, trumpeted, udometers, undermine, undreamed, unfreedom, unmerited, unmitered.