Synonyms for Diffident:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • diffident.
  •backward (adjective)
  • in disposed,
  • un eager,
  • un-eager,
  • un willing,
  • most uneager,
  • dis inclined,
  • dis-inclined,
  • in-disposed,
  • un-willing,
  • more uneager.
  •bashful (adjective)
  • most blushful,
  • more recoiling,
  • re coiling,
  • Verecund,
  • re-coiling,
  • most overmodest,
  • over modest,
  • more blushful,
  • most verecund,
  • more unassertive,
  • more verecund,
  • un assertive,
  • un-assertive,
  • more overmodest,
  • most recoiling,
  • more nervous,
  • most unassertive.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • yellow-bellied,
  • having the willies,
  • no guts,
  • lacking courage,
  • pigeonhearted,
  • weak-kneed,
  • softer,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • running scared,
  • Cowhearted.
  •coy (adjective)
  • prudish,
  • kittenish,
  • most rabbity,
  • more rabbity.
  •demure (adjective)
  • de-mure,
  • strait laced,
  • de mure,
  • un-assured,
  • un assured,
  • most unassured,
  • more unassured.
  •dubious (adjective)
  • most unconvinced,
  • un-clearest,
  • more unconvinced,
  • un-trustiest,
  • un-likelier,
  • un clearest,
  • un trustworthy,
  • un decided,
  • un likeliest,
  • un reliable,
  • in-decisive,
  • un clearer,
  • in decisive,
  • more trustless,
  • un-decided,
  • far fetched,
  • untrustiest,
  • un-dependable,
  • un-trustier,
  • most trustless,
  • iffy,
  • un clear,
  • un trusty,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un likely,
  • un-clearer,
  • un-trusty,
  • un-sure,
  • untrustier,
  • un trustiest,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-convinced,
  • touch go,
  • Mootable,
  • un convinced,
  • un sure,
  • un trustier,
  • un dependable,
  • un-likely,
  • dubitable,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • fly by night,
  • un-clear,
  • un likelier.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • have cold feet,
  • goose-bumpy,
  • in a dither,
  • worried,
  • aflutter.
  •hesitant (adjective)
  • doubting,
  • un predictable,
  • de laying,
  • de-laying,
  • most faltering,
  • more dawdling,
  • half hearted,
  • more faltering,
  • un-predictable,
  • Half-hearted,
  • most dawdling.
  •hesitant; unconfident (adjective)
  • Flinching,
  • Unpoised,
  • doubtful,
  • unobtrusive,
  • suspicious,
  • chary,
  • Blenching,
  • constrained,
  • distrustful.
  •humble (adjective)
  • unpretentious,
  • reverential,
  • unambitious,
  • supplicatory.
  •indifferent (adjective)
  • stoical,
  • non-partisan,
  • unsocial,
  • unaroused,
  • unimpressed.
  •insecure (adjective)
  • most unconfident,
  • more choked,
  • most unpoised,
  • more unpoised,
  • up in air,
  • in-secure,
  • up the air,
  • in secure,
  • more questioning,
  • in securest,
  • most delphic,
  • most questioning,
  • un poised,
  • most choked,
  • up tight,
  • up-tight,
  • un-poised,
  • un-confident,
  • up air,
  • in-securer,
  • in-securest,
  • in securer,
  • more unconfident,
  • un confident,
  • more delphic.
  •modest (adjective)
  • unselfish,
  • unpresuming,
  • Unboastful,
  • undemonstrative,
  • unpretending.
  •mousy (adjective)
  • in determinate,
  • in-effectual,
  • in effectual.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • indifferent,
  • modest,
  • humble,
  • overmodest,
  • unexpansive,
  • mousy,
  • shy,
  • untrusty,
  • nongregarious,
  • unassured,
  • rabbity,
  • tentative,
  • dubious,
  • eremitic,
  • non-committal,
  • demure,
  • unassertive,
  • retiring,
  • touch and go,
  • unconvinced,
  • blushful,
  • sheepish,
  • backward,
  • uneager,
  • unconfident,
  • vacillant,
  • Self-restrained,
  • coy,
  • reserved,
  • Uncompanionable,
  • Trustless,
  • hanging by thread,
  • reluctant,
  • bashful,
  • timid,
  • non-gregarious,
  • Unaffable,
  • insecure,
  • fearful,
  • on thin ice,
  • not forward,
  • over-modest,
  • uneffusive,
  • hesitant,
  • lacking confidence,
  • self-controlled.
  •reluctant (adjective)
  • most demurring,
  • more disheartened,
  • more demurring,
  • in-voluntary,
  • dis-heartened,
  • laggard,
  • more grudging,
  • most grudging,
  • dis heartened,
  • most disheartened,
  • in voluntary,
  • most laggard,
  • more laggard.
  •reserved (adjective)
  • more reclusive,
  • re served,
  • re-served,
  • non committal,
  • most uncompanionable,
  • un demonstrative,
  • un companionable,
  • re strained,
  • re-strained,
  • close mouthed,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • mis anthropic,
  • un-demonstrative,
  • more uncompanionable,
  • most eremitic,
  • self-contained,
  • un-companionable,
  • un-approachable,
  • self contained,
  • more eremitic,
  • un approachable,
  • selfcontained.
  •retiring (adjective)
  • most nongregarious,
  • more unexpansive,
  • non gregarious,
  • un expansive,
  • re-tiring,
  • un affable,
  • more nongregarious,
  • un-affable,
  • un-expansive,
  • most unexpansive,
  • un-sociable,
  • re tiring,
  • more unaffable,
  • most unaffable.
  •self-conscious (adjective)
  • out of countenance.
  •self-controlled (adjective)
  • self controlled,
  • selfcontrolled.
  •self-effacing (adjective)
  • self effacing,
  • selfeffacing.
  •self-restrained (adjective)
  • self restrained,
  • selfrestrained.
  •sheepish (adjective)
  • more mortified,
  • more chagrined,
  • most mortified,
  • most chagrined.
  •shrinking (adjective)
  • more declining,
  • most declining.
  •shy (adjective)
  • most uneffusive,
  • more uneffusive,
  • most introvert,
  • dis trustful,
  • dis-trustful,
  • un-effusive,
  • more introvert,
  • un effusive.
  •timid (adjective)
  • more bullied,
  • more unnerved,
  • most browbeaten,
  • more trembling,
  • more milquetoast,
  • most unnerved,
  • most trembling,
  • most badgered,
  • most bullied,
  • co wed,
  • more badgered,
  • co-wed,
  • having cold feet,
  • more cowed,
  • more daunted,
  • unnerved,
  • un-nerved,
  • un nerved,
  • most cowed,
  • more browbeaten,
  • most milquetoast,
  • most daunted.
  •unassuming (adjective)
  • un assuming,
  • un-assuming.
  •vacillant (adjective)
  • shillyshally.

• n.

  •
  • ill at ease,
  • unsure of yourself,
  • lost.
  •
  • restraint.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • inhibition,
  • fearsome,
  • scary,
  • efface,
  • shell,
  • self-conscious,
  • untalkative,
  • Jibbing,
  • mouse,
  • shaky,
  • shyness,
  • embarrassed,
  • Boggling,
  • self-effacing,
  • unsure,
  • selfless,
  • self-doubting,
  • humbly,
  • cowardly,
  • withdrawn,
  • backwards,
  • faltering,
  • inhibited,
  • shrinking,
  • hesitating,
  • shyly,
  • modesty,
  • Demurring,
  • wallflower,
  • trepidant,
  • private,
  • abashed,
  • trembling,
  • quiet,
  • sticking,
  • deprecative,
  • nervous,
  • jumpy,
  • withdraw,
  • aw shucks,
  • Qualmish,
  • trigger-happy,
  • skittish,
  • unselfconfident,
  • deprecating,
  • squeamish,
  • tremulous,
  • shrinking violet,
  • humility,
  • self-deprecating,
  • cautious,
  • shivery,
  • timorous,
  • self-distrustful,
  • inadequacy,
  • introvert,
  • in fear,
  • unselfreliant,
  • withdrawal,
  • self-depreciative,
  • of few words,
  • say,
  • scrupling,
  • backwards in coming forwards,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • Fearing,
  • straining,
  • reticent,
  • meek,
  • inadequate,
  • silent,
  • unassuming,
  • goosy,
  • self-depreciating,
  • skittery,
  • deprecatory,
  • Stickling,
  • Startlish,
  • scrupulous.
  •shy (noun)
  • study at shy.

• Other synonyms:

  •insistent
  • urgent.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • wavering,
  • frightened,
  • lily-livered,
  • standoffish,
  • indecisive,
  • dismiss,
  • panicky,
  • confused,
  • jittery,
  • prig,
  • affected,
  • distant,
  • chicken,
  • evasive,
  • faint,
  • intimidated,
  • mistrustful,
  • contrite,
  • detached,
  • prude,
  • ashamed,
  • recalcitrant,
  • edgy,
  • faint-hearted,
  • restless,
  • uncomfortable,
  • all-overish,
  • awkward,
  • uneasy,
  • apprehensive,
  • balky,
  • averse,
  • yellow,
  • pusillanimous,
  • reserve,
  • loath,
  • halfhearted,
  • in a tizzy,
  • fidgety,
  • uninvolved,
  • lowly,
  • reclusive,
  • discombobulated,
  • decorous,
  • concerned,
  • shy of,
  • anxious,
  • shamefaced,
  • balking,
  • bashfulness,
  • aloof,
  • ungenerous,
  • incertain,
  • hurt,
  • gutless,
  • Vacillatory,
  • introverted,
  • chicken-livered,
  • taciturn,
  • unwilling,
  • qualmy,
  • withdrawing,
  • solicitous,
  • white-livered,
  • misgiving,
  • removed,
  • afraid,
  • scared,
  • restive,
  • decent,
  • uncertain,
  • recessive,
  • mousey,
  • craven,
  • fainthearted,
  • cowering,
  • unsociable,
  • diffidence,
  • blushing,
  • indrawn.

Antonyms for Diffident:

• adj.

  • hesitant; unconfident
    bold, extroverted, confident, aggressive, brave.
  • Other antonyms:
    companionable, uninhibited, gregarious, dashing, brash, social, clubbable, sociable, convivial, boon, positive, outgoing, immodest, overbold, reassured.

Homophones for Diffident:

• day of the month, David Mamet, dividend, day of atonement, debutante.