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Garrulous vs Diffident - What's the difference?

garrulous | diffident |

As adjectives the difference between garrulous and diffident

is that garrulous is excessively or tiresomely talkative while diffident is : Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

garrulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
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  • * 1984 , "A Modern Whitman," by James Atlas. The Atlantic , Dec 1984.
    • Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous , untidy narratives read like a good novel.
  • (of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

    • Synonyms

    * (excessively or tiresomely talkative) (l), (l), (l), (l) * (excessively wordy and rambling) (l), (l), (l) * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

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    diffident

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic): Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
  • Lacking confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
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    • Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
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    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.}}