diffident — अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोश

विशेषण

1. Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

   प्रयोग

   • पुरातन

2. Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest

   समानार्थी शब्द

   timidmodest

   उदाहरण

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

   अधिक उदाहरण (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.

विशेषण

1. showing modest reserve

   उदाहरण

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

2. lacking self-confidence

   समानार्थी शब्द

   shytimidunsure

   विलोम

   confident

   उदाहरण

   stood in the doorway diffident and abashed

   problems that call for bold not timid responses

   अधिक उदाहरण (1)

   a very unsure young man