deferential Definition

respectful, deferent, regardful, polite, obsequious, solicitous, reverential, dismissive, disdainful, circumspect, reverent, complaisant, lenient, contemptuous, forthright, dutiful, assertive, subservient, sympathetic, courteous, acquiescent, unassertive, businesslike, diffident, mannerly, sycophantic, docile, arrogant, reticent, empathetic, uncritical, affectionate, talkative, haughty, adversarial, amiable, officious, gentlemanly, evenhanded, dispassionate, condescending, chummy, ungenerous, effusive, unforthcoming, magnanimous, scornful, timid, censorious, brusque, undemonstrative, genial, unsympathetic, combative, undeferential, paternalistic, waspish, dilatory, decorous, incommunicative, worshipful, stoic, timorous, judgmental, pompous, gracious, parsimonious, pugnacious, sniffy, scrupulous, perfunctory, standoffish, bossy, imperious, nonchalant, punctilious, servile, flippant, contumacious, hypercritical, confrontational, adulatory, glib, conscientious, clubbable, obtuse, humorless, insular, inquisitorial, morigerous, snobbish, unemotional, obstreperous, unrevealing, bumptious, unstatesmanlike, prudish, laudatory, truculent, abstemious,