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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

acting shy or reserved;

e.g. She felt diffident towards her boss and often shied away from his overbearing authority.

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Similar Words

Abashed

Backward

Bashful

Coy

Demure

Halting

Impersonal

Indecisive

Indrawn

Introverted

Lone wolf

Modest

Nongregarious

Other-directed

Recessive

Reclusive

Retiring

Self-conscious

Self-contained

Self-critical

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Self-doubting

Self-effacing

Self-forgetful

Self-giving

Self-questioning

Sheepish

Shy

Unadventurous

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unsocial

Withdrawn

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Opposite Words

Affected

Aggressive

Ambitious

Arrogant

Assertive

Assumptive

Assured

Biggety

Bold

Boon

Brash

Brave

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Clear

Cocksure

Companionable

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Consequential

Convivial

Courageous

Dashing

Dauntless

Debonair

Disdainful

Doubtless

Doughty

Egocentric

Egotistical

Enterprising

Familiar

Fearless

Fierce

Firm

Forceful

Forward

Free

Gallant

Grandiose

Greathearted

Gregarious

Gutsy

Gutty

Haughty

Hearty

Heroic

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-minded

High-pressure

High-toned

Highfalutin

Hoity-toity

Holier-than-thou

Hotheaded

Huffy

Immodest

Imperious

Impetuous

Implicit

Important

In-your-face

Inner-directed

Intrepid

Iron

Ironclad

La-di-da

Lionhearted

Lofty

Lordly

Lusty

Manful

Masterful

Metro

Metropolitan

Militant

Narcissistic

Ostentatious

Overbold

Overfamiliar

Overweening

Peremptory

Plucky

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Pushy

Robust

Sanguine

Secure

Self-absorbed

Self-aggrandizing

Self-applauding

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-centered

Self-contained

Self-directed

Self-dramatizing

Self-flattering

Self-glorifying

Self-important

Self-infatuated

Self-obsessed

Self-oriented

Self-poised

Self-preoccupied

Self-regarding

Self-satisfied

Self-seeking

Self-serving

Selfish

Smooth

Smug

Sniffy

Snippy

Sociable

Social

Solid

Solipsistic

Sophisticated

Stalwart

Stiff-necked

Stout

Stouthearted

Strong

Stuck-up

Sturdy

Suave

Supercilious

Superior

Svelte

Than

Toplofty

Trigger-happy

Unafraid

Unapologetic

Undaunted

Undeterred

Undismayed

Uninhibited

Unreserved

Unselfconscious

Unsubdued

Unswerving

Uppity

Urbane

Vain

Vainglorious

Valiant

Valorous

Vigorous

Your

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Related Words

Aloof

Antisocial

Asocial

Awkward

Buttoned-up

Chicken

Chickenhearted

Closemouthed

Clumsy

Cold

Cold-eyed

Cool

Cowardly

Craven

Dastardly

Demure

Detached

Distant

Distrustful

Doubtful

Down-to-earth

Dry

Dubious

Dumb

Embarrassed

Frosty

Gauche

Graceless

Gutless

Humble

Inelegant

Laconic

Lily-livered

Lone

Lowly

Meek

Modest

Poltroon

Pusillanimous

Recreant

Remote

Reserved

Reticent

Rough-hewn

Rustic

Self-conscious

Silent

Skeptical

Spineless

Standoff

Standoffish

Stiff

Stilted

Suspicious

Taciturn

Tight-lipped

Trustless

Unadventurous

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unbending

Uncomfortable

Uncommunicative

Uneasy

Ungraceful

Unheroic

Unpretentious

Unsociable

Unsocial

Uptight

Wooden

Yellow

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