Meaning and example
showing modest reserve
She was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.738 places diffident in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 77.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
equanimityUncommon
- Known by
- 77.2%
steadiness of mind under stress
compunctionUncommon
- Known by
- 77.3%
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
desiccateUncommon
- Known by
- 77%
preserve by removing all water and liquids from
portentousUncommon
- Known by
- 76.6%
of momentous or ominous significance
rarefiedUncommon
- Known by
- 78.2%
having low density
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.