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List of antonyms from "self-conscious" to antonyms from "self-regard"


Discover our 149 antonyms available for the terms "self-loving, self-possession, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-effacement, self-contained" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.


Definition of the day : « self-immolation »

  • As in martyrdom : noun suffering endured for sake of a cause
  • As in hara-kiri : noun ritual suicide
Example sentences :
  • Self-immolation were easy in comparison with the infliction of one pang on her.
  • Extract from : « Evenings at Donaldson Manor » by Maria J. McIntosh
  • Even if this reads like slavery or self-immolation, what do you care?
  • Extract from : « The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) » by W. Grant Hague
  • He could but recognize a baleful nobility in her self-immolation.
  • Extract from : « The Confounding of Camelia » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • The words fell chillingly on the blaze of her self-immolation.
  • Extract from : « Sanctuary » by Edith Wharton
  • These acts of self-immolation were esteemed exceedingly meritorious.
  • Extract from : « The Student's Mythology » by Catherine Ann White
  • She was in a mood in which self-immolation seemed the natural penalty of her mistakes.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Olive » by Basil King
  • This they evince by self-immolation, after the manner of eastern wives.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 351 » by Various
  • Put away your mania of self-immolation—or keep it exclusively for my benefit.
  • Extract from : « The Far Horizon » by Lucas Malet
  • Others take theoretically polar directions; and with them, rightness consists either in quietism, or else in self-immolation.
  • Extract from : « The Philosophy of Natural Theology » by William Jackson
  • Not only their men but their women have made themselves immortal by their bravery, chivalry, purity and self-immolation.
  • Extract from : « The Political Future of India » by Lajpat Rai