Reverse Dictionary: DEMURE

ADJECTIVES
► ANCIENT of children: staid, demure, precocious → 1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DOWNLOOKED that has downcast eyes or a lowered countenance; guilty-looking, sullen; demure, sheepish, hangdog → 1636 obs.
► DOWNLOOKING guilty-looking, sullen; demure, sheepish, hangdog → 1626
► MIM prim, demure; affectedly modest or shy; prudish; primly silent or reticent → 1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MIMINY-MOUTHED prim, demure, affected → 1897 Eng. dial.
► MIMP prim, demure, affected → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOME gentle; quiet; demure, diffident; thoughtful; smooth-spoken → 1864 Eng. dial.
► MUMPING grimacing or assuming a demure, sanctimonious, or melancholy expression; querulous, complaining → 1594 chiefly Sc.
► MURE grave, modest, demure → 1390 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► OLD wise, serious, thoughtful; of a child: precocious, staid, demure → 1896 Eng. dial.
► PRIMSY prim, demure, formal; precise → 1786 chiefly Sc.
► SMOOLY sly and demure; smooth-spoken but deceptive → 19C obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► VERECUNDOUS. modest, shamefaced, demure → 1656

ADVERBS
► MURELY demurely; with consideration → 1474 obs.

VERBS
► MUMP to assume a demure, melancholy, or sanctimonious expression; to be silent and sullen; to sulk, to mope → 1610