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Adjective: diffident  di-fi-dunt
  1. Showing modest reserve
    "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"
     
  2. Lacking self-confidence
    "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"
    - shy, timid, unsure

See also: confidence, diffidence, diffidently, reserved

Antonym: confident

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