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Definition: Unassertive |
UnassertiveAdjective1. Inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence; "a shy unassertive person". 2. Not blatant or overly aggressive in manner or appearance; "a retiring disposition". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unassertive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonym: UnassertiveSynonym: retiring (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: assertive (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unassertive |
| English words defined with "unassertive": milksop, Milquetoast ♦ pansy, pantywaist ♦ sissy ♦ unassertively. (references) |
| "Unassertive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unassertive" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unassertive | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unassertive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | modest (decent, decently, demure, diffident, discreet, humble, lowly, modest, neat, quiet, unobtrusive, unpretentious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير مثبت (unstuck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стеснителен (backward, diffident, gauche, modest, mousey, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, timid), неуверен (diffident, insecure, shaky, unassured, uncertain, uncool, wonky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nerozhodný (drawn, even, fifty fifty, half hearted, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, undecided). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محجوب (Decent, Diffident, Timid, Unobtrusive), کمرو (Cagey, Chary, Chicken, Coy, Meticulous, Sheepish, Shy, Timid), افتاده حال . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbestimmt, vage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerény (austere, exiguous, have no side, humble, lowly, low-pitched, meek, mite, modest, sedate, to help sy in one's small way, unassuming, unobtrusive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchioneysagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assertiveunay tímido (afraid, apprehensive, backward, bashful, blushing, diffident, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, fearsome, gawk, mousey, mousy, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rabbity, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous), que não se impõe, modesto (blushful, coy, demure, homely, humble, lowly, modest, plain, self-effacing, shamefaced, unassuming, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), apagado (extinct, inconspicuous, out, shamefaced). (various references) скромный (decent, demure, hamble, humble, low life, mean, modest, self-effacing, unassuming, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious). (various references) neuporan (non-persistent), nenapadan (unmolested), neagresivan (non-aggressive). (various references) không quyết đoán, không khẳng định, không dứt khoát rụt rè; khiêm tốn, không chắc chắn (equivocal, pasteboard, touch-and-go, uncertainly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unassertive": unassertively. (additional references) | |
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"Unassertive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: insertive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: invertases. | |
-2 letters: arsenites, assertive, estuaries, estuarine, invertase, irateness, reinvests, resinates, sauternes, sirventes, stearines, sustainer, uneasiest, universes. | |
-3 letters: anestrus, anureses, anuresis, arenites, arsenite, artiness, assenter, earnests, enuresis, esurient, etesians, inverses, naivetes, nerviest, reinvest, resinate, retinues, retsinas, reunites, revuists, ruinates, sarsenet, saunters, sauterne, senarius, sentries, seriates, servants, sinuates, sirvente, stainers, stearine, stearins, stuivers, sureties, taurines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: intravenouses, lucrativeness, misadventures, unassertively. | |
+3 letters: antisubversive, figurativeness, overenthusiasm, ultrasensitive, universalities. | |
+4 letters: antisubversives, lucrativenesses, overenthusiasms, superelevations, superlativeness, voluntarinesses. | |
+5 letters: antiuniversities, figurativenesses, overenthusiastic, overspeculations, remunerativeness, unattractiveness. | |
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