diffident — قاموس الإنجليزية

صفة

1. Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

   الاستعمال

   • عتيق

2. Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest

   مرادفات

   timidmodest

   أمثلة

   Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.

   At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.

صفة

1. showing modest reserve

   أمثلة

   she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture

2. lacking self-confidence

   مرادفات

   shytimidunsure

   الأضداد

   confident

   أمثلة

   stood in the doorway diffident and abashed

   problems that call for bold not timid responses

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   a very unsure young man