• second-rate, meretricious, ignorant, timid, insignificant, down-to-earth, lowly, homely, stunted, unpretending, unassertive, acquiescent, sorry, average, unimportant, unassuming, dejected, cowering, ashamed, diffident, small, demure, degraded, unknown, Self-reproving, sad, inferior, resigned, sordid, deferential, subdued, humble, shabby, petty, measly, trivial, unheroic, cringing, downcast, run-of-the-mill, deep, little, mediocre, depressed, common, short, overmodest, dispirited, paltry, shy, unimposing, defeated, unobtrusive, crestfallen, displeased, unpretentious, passive, apologetic, unprepossessing, infamous, modest, meek, introverted, retiring, bashful, yielding, sheepish, base, shrinking, quiet, reserved, mousy, abject, puny, compliant, disconsolate, submissive, undignified, mean, trifling, Dwarfed, ordinary.