Diffident

Adjective

 * : Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
 * 1) Lacking confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
 * Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
 * Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.

Adverbs for Diffident
delicately; provincially; becomingly; excessively; amusingly; laughably; ridiculously; needlessly; properly; nervously; anxiously; dreadfully; painfully; bashfully; blushingly; demurely; quietly; shyly.

Synonyms for Diffident
timid, shy, hesitant, bashful, modest, shrinking.

Antonyms for Diffident
bold, brazen, brash.

Thesaurus
bashful, boggling, cautious, cowardly, coy, demure, demurring, deprecative, deprecatory, faltering, fearful, fearing, fearsome, goosy, hesitant, hesitating, in fear, jibbing, jumpy, modest, mousy, nervous, qualmish, rabbity, reluctant, retiring, scary, scrupling, scrupulous, self-deprecating, self-depreciating, self-depreciative, self-distrustful, self-doubting, self-effacing, shaky, shilly-shallying, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, squeamish, startlish, sticking, stickling, straining, tentative, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unassertive, unassured, unselfconfident, unselfreliant

Etymology
present participle of diffidere ("to mistrust")

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian: недоверчивый, скрытный
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: непоуздан, несигуран, неповјерљив
 * Roman: nepouzdan, nesiguran, nepovjerljiv


 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Russian: неуверенный в себе, застенчивый,


 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: несигуран, срамежљив
 * Roman: nesiguran, sramežljiv