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Definitions: Self-conscious |
Self-consciousAdjective1. Aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts; "self-conscious awareness"; "self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values"- D.M.Potter. 2. Excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior; "self-conscious teenagers"; "wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-conscious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial; overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Self-conscious |
| English words defined with "self-conscious": abash, abashed ♦ chagrined ♦ discomfited ♦ embarrass, embarrassed ♦ insecurely ♦ modernism ♦ self-consciously, simperer ♦ unselfconscious, unselfconsciousness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "self-conscious": lamer. (references) |
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Screenplays | Now I'm 'arrestin' this entire show on three counts: one, acts of self-conscious behavior contrary to the 'Not in front of the children' Act, two, always saying 'It's so and so of the Yard' every time the fuzz arrives and, three, and this is the cruncher, offences against the 'Getting out of sketches without using a proper punchline' Act, four, namely, simply ending every bleedin' sketch by just having a policeman come in and wait a minute. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Self-Conscious Guy (1951) | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interests of the immense majority. (reference) |
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| "Self-conscious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-conscious" is used about 279 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 279 | 17,495 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-conscious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | bedees (abashed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自觉. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sky (abashed, afraid, cloud, shy, timid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | timide (abashed, shy), blo (abashed, shy), bevangen (abashed, defeat, shy, win over), bedeesd (abashed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sinĝena (abashed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | smæðin (abashed, shy), blúgvur (abashed, chaste, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaivatunut (ill at ease), ujo (coy, shy, timid), hämillinen (ill at ease, shy), hämi (ill at ease, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ferlegen (abashed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευσυνείδητος (scrupulous), αμήχανος (conscious of, embarrassed, self conscious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zavart (abashed, be disconcerted, bewildered, disturbed, embarrassed, flustered, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled), zavarban levő, tudatos (conscious, self conscious), pózoló (priggish), kényszeredett (abashment, constrained, enforced, faint, scrogged, stiff, wry), feszélyezett (constrained, cramp, cramped, embarrassed, stiff), elfogult (biased, biassed, one-sided, partial, prejudiced), elfogódott, affektáló (pretty-pretty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | feiminn (abashed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sadar diri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | timido (abashed, bashful, coy, diffident, faint, milksop, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 自覚 , 面 ゆい (abashed, bashful, embarrassed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おもはゆい (abashed, bashful, embarrassed), じかく (auricle, external ear, hemorrhoid, number of strokes in character, status of a Buddhist temple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자의식이 강한. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nearagh (disgraceful, dishonourable, disreputable, ignominious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sjenert (abashed, afraid, coy, shy, timid), blyg (abashed, shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-conscioussay zażenowany. (various references) неловкий (awkward, blundering, cack-handed, clumsy, gauche, gawky, heavy-handed, maladroit, self conscious, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful), застенчивый (bashful, blushful, blushing, coy, diffident, humble, self conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, shy, trembly, unassertive). (various references) förlägen (abashed, awkward, disconcerted, embarrassed, shy), brydd (abashed, embarrassed, puzzled, shy), blyg (abashed, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, mousey, mousy, shamefaced, shy, timid). (various references) tự giác ngượng ngùng, e thẹn (shily, shyly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-f-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: consciouses. | |
-3 letters: cocounsels, occlusions, seclusions, succession. | |
-4 letters: cocounsel, colonises, concusses, conscious, coulisses, eclosions, felonious, focusless, lousiness, occlusion, scolioses, seclusion. | |
-5 letters: cessions, clonuses, colonics, colonies, colonise, colossus, confuses, conioses, consoles, coolness, cosiness, coulises, coulisse, councils, counsels, eclosion, elusions, floccose, floosies, flossies, flounces, focusses, foulness, funicles, incloses, ossicles, scolices, sulfones, sulfonic, uncloses, unlooses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 63 6F 6E 73 63 69 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - c o n s c i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0063 006F 006E 0073 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371787215698180856975818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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