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self-conscious

self-conscious adjective: aware of oneself as an individual being.

Adjective

self-conscious (comparative more self-conscious, superlative most self-conscious)

  1. Aware of oneself as an individual being.
  2. Excessively conscious of one's appearance or behaviour.
    • “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  3. Uncomfortably over-conscious of one's appearance or behaviour; socially ill at ease.

self-conscious meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

self-conscious in Tamil

தன்னிலை உணர்ந்த

self-conscious in Malayalam

uncomfortable, embarrassed, uneasy
സ്വാത്മബോധമുള്ള, ആത്മാവബോധമുള്ള, സ്വയംബോധമുള്ള, സ്വയം ലജ്ജിക്കുന്ന, വല്ലായ്മയുള്ള, ആകുലാവസ്ഥയിലായ

self-conscious in Kannada

ಸಂಕೋಚ, ನಾಚಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿರುವ, ತನ್ಬಗೆಗೊಂಡಿರುವ

Forms of self-conscious

comparativemore self-conscious
superlativemost self-conscious
alternative formselfconscious

Origin of self-conscious

From self- + conscious.

Words formed from self-conscious

Questions about self-conscious

What does self-conscious mean?
Self-conscious means aware of oneself as an individual being.
What is self-conscious in Tamil?
Self-conscious in Tamil is தன்னிலை உணர்ந்த. See Self-conscious meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-conscious?
Self-conscious is an adjective.

Words near self-conscious in the dictionary

  1. self-congratulating
  2. self-congratulation
  3. self-congratulations
  4. self-congratulatory
  5. self-conjugate
  6. self-conscious
  7. self-consciously
  8. self-consciousness
  9. self-consistency
  10. self-consistent
  11. self-consolation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-conscious (page history and authors); self-conscious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-conscious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); self-conscious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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