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How to pronounce “diffident”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of diffident with real speech in context.
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- Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories
literature as diffident. I could go
- Definition summary
- (archaic) Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
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How to pronounce diffident
Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories

literature as diffident. I could go
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “diffident”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (archaic) Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
- Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest
- [Verb]
- third-person plural future active indicative of diffīdō
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