SELF-DOUBTING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

self-doubting

adjective

Definition of self-doubting

as in timid

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Adjective

Because, at this point, helping the Ukrainians achieve victory would cost relatively little, yet the West remains timid.

— Dan Crenshaw, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2026
Defense can’t be too timid, but there needs to be rational response to an asymmetric downside.

— Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of timid

Adjective

Researchers already know how insecure devices like TV boxes can be.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
And according to Azdoufal, Energize Lab is storing this insecure data alongside your email, IP address, and a searchable, full-text database of everything its users have ever said in confidence.

— Sean Hollister, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of insecure

Adjective

As the trailer tells us, the pleasantly diffident Mona (Moore) is thrown way out of orbit following an audition for a musical show.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 June 2026
To strangers, Kay seemed demure, diffident, even shy, an impression her youthful appearance helped create.

— Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of diffident

Adjective

This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Avoiding is unassertive and uncooperative, where an individual tends to give up on their own needs and acquiesce to the desires of others by disengaging from the situation altogether.

— Ellen Choi, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025

Definition of unassertive

Adjective

Others seemed meek, with downcast eyes that refused to meet the camera.

— Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
Moore plays Mona, a meek, thoroughly unseen wife and mother who impulsively decides to audition for a community theater musical despite having no experience.

— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of meek

Adjective

The unassuming social media scroller or person who clicked onto the website would have no clue of the Buckeye Bulletin’s apparent connection to a group of wealthy Southern California Republications.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Well-rested after a bye, the unassuming Jones should do very well.

— Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of unassuming

Adjective

The Coopop Bobber is exactly that – an electric two-wheeler that borrows the visual swagger of a custom bobber and pairs it with the decidedly more modest performance of a European electric moped.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Oct. 2026
Even a modest slice of commerce flowing through AI agents would reshape how consumers shop, and travel is where that shift is already visible.

— Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2026

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