Wanting confidence in others; distrustful.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"