Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence;
- Example: "a shy unassertive person"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unassertive
adj 1: inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence; "a shy
unassertive person" [ant: assertive, self-asserting,
self-assertive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "unassertive":
abject, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, assenting, backward,
bashful, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting,
diffident, modest, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting,
nonresistive, obedient, passive, rabbity, resigned, retiring,
self-effacing, servile, shy, submissive, subservient, supine,
timid, unassured, uncomplaining, unresistant, unresisting