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
英英釋義網絡釋義
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. 斷定的,過分自信的diffidenta. 無自信的,客客氣氣的,羞怯的speedy a. 快的,迅速的
3 . 不自信的
diffluence 分流diffident不自信的diffuse 散開,散布
4 . 無自信的
assertive a. 斷定的,過分自信的diffidenta. 無自信的,客客氣氣的,羞怯的speedy a. 快的,迅速的
相關詞條
+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門口;
+diffident hydrodynamic
1 . 不同水動力
the simulation test can study the movement law of pollutant diffusion under the diffident hydrodynamic condition .模擬試驗能夠更好地研究不同水動力條件下污染物的擴散運移規律。