Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈdɪfɪdənt/

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Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. (archaic): Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
  2. Lacking confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.

Exempel

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

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore diffident
Superlativmost diffident

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