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diffident

English

  1. 🔊 lacking self-confidence
    “stood in the doorway diffident and abashed”
  2. 🔊 showing modest reserve
    “she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 tímido diffident

Similar words

shy timid unsure bashful boggling cautious cowardly coy demure demurring deprecative deprecatory faltering fearful fearing fearsome goosy hesitant hesitating in fear jibbing jumpy modest mousy