diffident — Английский словарь

Прилагательное

1. Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

   Употребление

   • архаичное

2. Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest

   Синонимы

   timidmodest

   Примеры

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

   Другие примеры (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.

Прилагательное

1. showing modest reserve

   Примеры

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

2. lacking self-confidence

   Синонимы

   shytimidunsure

   Антонимы

   confident

   Примеры

   stood in the doorway diffident and abashed

   problems that call for bold not timid responses

   Другие примеры (1)

   a very unsure young man