What are the antonyms for DIFFIDENT?
- confident, brave, convivial, aggressive, companionable, clubbable, extroverted, uninhibited, immodest, dashing, overbold, gregarious, outgoing, reassured, bold, sociable, boon, positive, social, brash.
Synonyms for DIFFIDENT
- Uncompanionable,
- say,
- unassertive,
- bashful,
- untrusty,
- Demurring,
- backwards,
- nongregarious,
- inadequate,
- evasive,
- concerned,
- removed,
- aflutter,
- non-gregarious,
- yellow-bellied,
- undemonstrative,
- jittery,
- confused,
- mousy,
- unconfident,
- faint,
- running scared,
- bashfulness,
- unambitious,
- meek,
- unselfish,
- uneager,
- unsocial,
- withdrawal,
- unconvinced,
- scrupling,
- retiring,
- no guts,
- shy,
- in a tizzy,
- constrained,
- awkward,
- hurt,
- lacking courage,
- unselfconfident,
- sheepish,
- deprecating,
- pusillanimous,
- cautious,
- ill at ease,
- humble,
- embarrassed,
- Boggling,
- withdraw,
- reserve,
- halfhearted,
- prude,
- indecisive,
- intimidated,
- goosy,
- worried,
- lacking confidence,
- white-livered,
- deprecative,
- humbly,
- tentative,
- mousey,
- skittery,
- Unpoised,
- coy,
- nervous,
- of few words,
- modest,
- self-distrustful,
- straining,
- fainthearted,
- cowardly,
- cowering,
- unsure,
- uncomfortable,
- shilly-shallying,
- insecure,
- reluctant,
- pigeonhearted,
- lily-livered,
- recessive,
- taciturn,
- blushful,
- self-deprecating,
- shrinking,
- study at shy,
- shyly,
- ashamed,
- unpresuming,
- inadequacy,
- Jibbing,
- standoffish,
- demure,
- incertain,
- timorous,
- unselfreliant,
- discombobulated,
- efface,
- self-controlled,
- softer,
- not forward,
- fearful,
- introverted,
- squeamish,
- non-partisan,
- dismiss,
- doubtful,
- mouse,
- jumpy,
- supplicatory,
- unpretending,
- shy of,
- faltering,
- Self-restrained,
- backward,
- stoical,
- uncertain,
- self-depreciative,
- unassuming,
- untalkative,
- blushing,
- in a dither,
- vacillant,
- unassured,
- self-conscious,
- unsociable,
- hanging by thread,
- inhibition,
- Unboastful,
- out of countenance,
- qualmy,
- reverential,
- unobtrusive,
- panicky,
- backwards in coming forwards,
- restless,
- urgent,
- shaky,
- self-effacing,
- fidgety,
- balky,
- suspicious,
- distrustful,
- restive,
- scary,
- distant,
- over-modest,
- reclusive,
- decent,
- chary,
- lost,
- non-committal,
- prig,
- gutless,
- trepidant,
- sticking,
- shrinking violet,
- afraid,
- unwilling,
- shamefaced,
- wallflower,
- mistrustful,
- shivery,
- apprehensive,
- scared,
- modesty,
- affected,
- shyness,
- timid,
- Trustless,
- humility,
- faint-hearted,
- fearsome,
- dubious,
- have cold feet,
- Vacillatory,
- deprecatory,
- Unaffable,
- unimpressed,
- restraint,
- abashed,
- Stickling,
- eremitic,
- wavering,
- uneffusive,
- contrite,
- weak-kneed,
- aloof,
- Chicken-hearted,
- reticent,
- anxious,
- hesitant,
- Cowhearted,
- ungenerous,
- solicitous,
- shillyshally,
- reserved,
- selfless,
- Startlish,
- recalcitrant,
- uneasy,
- uninvolved,
- indrawn,
- frightened,
- self-depreciating,
- in fear,
- having the willies,
- inhibited,
- loath,
- hesitating,
- misgiving,
- private,
- unaroused,
- Flinching,
- trembling,
- balking,
- unsure of yourself,
- detached,
- quiet,
- trigger-happy,
- scrupulous,
- withdrawn,
- lowly,
- craven,
- on thin ice,
- silent,
- averse,
- unexpansive,
- shell,
- yellow,
- all-overish,
- Qualmish,
- rabbity,
- chicken-livered,
- decorous,
- chicken,
- self-doubting,
- diffident,
- skittish,
- withdrawing,
- Blenching,
- introvert,
- edgy,
- goose-bumpy,
- unpretentious,
- tremulous,
- aw shucks,
- diffidence,
- Fearing,
- indifferent,
- overmodest,
- touch and go.
Usage Examples for DIFFIDENT
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No, she dares not do it; for I am useful, and save her much trouble, and I have so much confidence in myself that I will not be interfered with; but poor Elsie is so diffident, so humble, so anxious to please, that she is constantly imposed on by an ignorant, thoughtless woman. - "Mr. Hogarth's Will" by Catherine Helen Spence
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My grandfather was a quiet old gentleman as far as I recollect him- he is somehow associated in my mind with carpet slippers and a diffident manner. - "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life" by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
