late Middle English (in the sense lacking confidence or trust in someone or something): from Latin diffident-failing in trust, from the verb diffidere, from dis-(expressing reversal) + fidereto trust
英英释义网络释义
noun
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
-diffident
1 . 缺乏自信的
deleterious 有害的diffident缺乏自信的enervate 使衰弱
2 . 羞怯的
assertive a. 断定的,过分自信的diffidenta. 无自信的,客客气气的,羞怯的speedy a. 快的,迅速的
3 . 不自信的
diffluence 分流diffident不自信的diffuse 散开,散布
4 . 无自信的
assertive a. 断定的,过分自信的diffidenta. 无自信的,客客气气的,羞怯的speedy a. 快的,迅速的
相关词条
+diffident and
1 . 羞怯而又
stood in the doorway diffident and abashed ;, 羞怯而又局促不安的站在门口;
+diffident hydrodynamic
1 . 不同水动力
the simulation test can study the movement law of pollutant diffusion under the diffident hydrodynamic condition .模拟试验能够更好地研究不同水动力条件下污染物的扩散运移规律。