diffident — 영어 사전

형용사

1. Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

   용법

   • 고어

2. Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest

   동의어

   timidmodest

   예문

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

   더 많은 예문 (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.

형용사

1. showing modest reserve

   예문

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

2. lacking self-confidence

   동의어

   shytimidunsure

   반의어

   confident

   예문

   stood in the doorway diffident and abashed

   problems that call for bold not timid responses

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   a very unsure young man