demure
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
demure (comparative demurer, superlative demurest)
- (usually, of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.
- She is a demure young lady.
- Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
- 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.
- Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.
- French: réservé, discret,sobre,sérieux
- German: zurückhaltend, ernst
- Italian: pudico, riservato
- Portuguese: reservado
- Russian: скро́мный
- Spanish: modesto, reservado
demure (demures, present participle demuring; past and past participle demured)
- (obsolete) To look demurely.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (act 4, scene 16, line 30)
- Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes […] shall acquire no Honour Demuring upon me.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (act 4, scene 16, line 30)
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