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/ˈdɪfɪdənt/
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ˈdɪfɪdənt
Adjektiv
Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
Gebrauch- archaisch
Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest
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Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
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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.
Adjektiv
showing modest reserve
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she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture
lacking self-confidence
- Antonyme
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stood in the doorway diffident and abashed
problems that call for bold not timid responses
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a very unsure young man