1. self-effacing - Adjective
2. self-effacing - Adjective Satellite
reluctant to draw attention to yourself
Source: WordNetThose who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. Thornton Wilder
In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible. Ben Folds
In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful. St. Vincent (musician)
I am thinking of the onion again.... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. Erica Jong
Character Friends and colleagues describe Dyson as shy and self-effacing, with a contrarian streak that his friends find refreshing but his intellectual opponents find exasperating. Source: Internet
Charlotte Moore, overall head of TV content, is the quietly competent woman (I wish for a change we could get a field of noisy women and a self-effacing bloke, but we are not there yet). Source: Internet