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{"id": "diffident", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "diffident", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "diffidently", "text": "diffidently"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (in the sense \u2018lacking confidence or trust in someone or something\u2019): from Latin diffident- \u2018failing in trust\u2019, from the verb diffidere, from dis- (expressing reversal) + fidere \u2018to trust\u2019"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/diffident_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8d\u026af\u026ad(\u0259)nt"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence"], "examples": [{"text": "a diffident youth"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0274760.005", "shortDefinitions": ["modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "shy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bashful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "modest"}, {"language": "en", "text": "self-effacing"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unassuming"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unpresuming"}, {"language": "en", "text": "humble"}, {"language": "en", "text": "meek"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unconfident"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unassertive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "timid"}, {"language": "en", "text": "timorous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "shrinking"}, {"language": "en", "text": "reserved"}, {"language": "en", "text": "withdrawn"}, {"language": "en", "text": "introverted"}, {"language": "en", "text": "inhibited"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "diffident", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0003936.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "diffident"}], "type": "headword", "word": "diffident"}], "word": "diffident"}