Definizione monolingua

diffident

diff?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of diff?d?

diffident (comparative more diffident, superlative most diffident)

1. (archaic): Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
2. Lacking confidence in ones self; distrustful of ones own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter viii

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

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     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.

Definizione dizionario diffident

	insicuro
	Lacking self-confidence.

modesto

timido

Altri significati:

Lacking confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.

distrustful

lacking confidence in one's self

(archaic): Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.