Crossword clues for self-conscious
self-conscious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-conscious \Self`-con"scious\, a.
Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. ``My self-conscious worth.''
--Dryden.Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 aware of oneself as an individual being. 2 uncomfortably over-conscious of one's appearance or behaviour. 3 socially ill at ease.
WordNet
adj. 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 [syn: self-aware]
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"
Usage examples of "self-conscious".
I have seen the goats on Mount Pentelicus scatter at the approach of a stranger, climb to the sharp points of projecting rocks, and attitudinize in the most self-conscious manner, striking at once those picturesque postures against the sky with which Oriental pictures have made us and them familiar.
We shall argue that, in the case of mankind, and pre-eminently in the case of woman, this enrichment and development of the individual life is best and most surely attained by parenthood or foster-parenthood, made self-conscious and provident, and magnificently transmuted by its extension and amplification upon the psychical plane in the education of children and, indeed, the care and ennoblement of human life in all its stages.
Let us, then, make parenthood the most responsible, the most deliberate, the most self-conscious thing in life, so that there shall be children born to those who love children, and only to those who love children, to those who have the parental instinct naturally strong, and who will, on the average, transmit a high measure of it to their offspring.
What they had was a squirmy, self-conscious, adolescent girl who redefined the art of belly dancing without really trying, like a som-nambulant who writes original love poems in her sleep.
He is stouter, the haggard look of worry and self-conscious inferiority has gone from his face, it is full and healthy and satisfied.
Her generous breasts had always made her self-conscious, so she used minimizing underwire bras that made her feel more contained and less conspicuous.
Our self-conscious and considerate visitors dumbly expressed amazement at their informal reception and our unfestive attire.
Kurtz had become, but because he saw it as a trespass, an unspontaneous and self-conscious venture into the rites of an alien species.
And if you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures at least as odd as kangaroos.
The Clockmaker, balding with a salt-and-pepper fringe, seemed to be making him more self-conscious than he already was.
It was in this same second-best suit, pressed between mattresses during the voyage, and donned with self-conscious anticipation under a porthole suddenly filled with a static landscape instead of the sea and the sky, that he had emerged from the boat, with that shiny flattened look of sailors ashore.
She wore the habitual expression of cool, self-conscious grandeur Firebird despised.
Europe since the Council of Vienne, there was a self-conscious methodological principle at work as a coeval with scholarly discipline.
Though it was obviously the speech of a complicated, modern man, self-conscious, sophisticated, nervous, product of a society perhaps not quite as free and Nietzschean as it deemed itself, but yet cultivated and illuminated and refined, it nevertheless seemed exuberantly sound.
As a people, Pisces were very self-conscious and protective of who touched our gills.