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Remiss vs Diffident - What's the difference?

remiss | diffident |

As adjectives the difference between remiss and diffident

is that remiss is at fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations while diffident is (archaic): lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

remiss

English

Adjective

(-)
  • At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.
    • I would certainly be remiss if I did not give credit where credit was due.
  • Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
  • * Milton
    • Thou never wast remiss , I bear thee witness.
  • * Woodward
    • Its motion becomes more languid and remiss .

    Synonyms

    * at fault, blameworthy, negligent, reprehensible

    See also

    * remise

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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.}}