underassertive
Insufficiently assertive.
Adjective
- Insufficiently assertive.
- This problem multiplies even more as Hart and Blackmon report: “Clinical experience shows that underassertive and excessively overassertive ministers are much more likely to suffer from depression, burnout, helplessness...
- I once heard someone offer an underassertive friend a favor and the friend said no in such a roundabout fashion that the person actually thought she'd said yes, and did it anyway. - 2013, Leigh Thompson, Richard...
- Some people are underassertive in almost every kind of social situation, whereas others behave overassertively in social encounters. - 2017, Martin Sundel, Sandra S. Sundel, Behavior Change in the Human Services, →ISBN:
Origin
From under- + assertive.