beta

Meaning

1. A person cast as weak, timid, or low status.
2. (adjective) Lacking the confidence associated with an alpha.

“Don’t be such a beta about asking for a raise.”

Where it came from

Paired with alpha from the same wolf-pack terminology biologists later disowned. Pickup artist and manosphere forums built beta into an insult for men seen as submissive, starting in the early 2010s. alpha