diffident — Kamus bahasa Inggris

Adjektiva

1. Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

   Penggunaan

   • arkais

2. Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest

   Sinonim

   timidmodest

   Contoh

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

   Lebih banyak contoh (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.

Adjektiva

1. showing modest reserve

   Contoh

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

2. lacking self-confidence

   Sinonim

   shytimidunsure

   Antonim

   confident

   Contoh

   stood in the doorway diffident and abashed

   problems that call for bold not timid responses

   Lebih banyak contoh (1)

   a very unsure young man