diffident — 英語辞典

形容詞

1. Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

   用法

   • 古語

2. Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest

   同義語

   timidmodest

   例文

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

   その他の例文 (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.

形容詞

1. showing modest reserve

   例文

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

2. lacking self-confidence

   同義語

   shytimidunsure

   反義語

   confident

   例文

   stood in the doorway diffident and abashed

   problems that call for bold not timid responses

   その他の例文 (1)

   a very unsure young man