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Infear vs Diffident - What's the difference?

infear | diffident |

As an adjective diffident is

(archaic): lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

infear

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Infear has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'infear':

infer, impair, invar, infair, impurer, impower, imbower, imbar, impoor, inbear

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.
  • *
    • Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.}}