Difference between Reserved and Diffident

RESERVED vs DIFFIDENT: ADJECTIVE

Set aside for the use of a particular person or party
Cool and formal in manner
Designated as unavailable except for a certain purpose or user; kept in reserve.
Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency.
Marked by self-restraint and reticence
Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.

Showing modest reserve
Lacking self-confidence
Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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.

Kept for another or future use; retained; kept back.
Showing reserve in behavior; backward in communicating one's thoughts; not open, free, or frank; distant; cold; shy; coy.
Retired; secluded.
In decorative art, left of the color of the background, as when another color is worked upon the ground to form a new ground, the pattern being left of the first color.
Synonyms Excepted, withheld.
Restrained, cautious, uncommunicative, unsocial, unsociable, taciturn.

Synonyms Bashful, shamefaced, sheepish.
Distrustful of one's self; not confident; reserved; timid; shy: as, a diffident youth.
Distrustful; wanting confidence in another's power, will, or sincerity.

Set aside, Indrawn, Engaged, Distant, Rarified, Diffident, Bookable, Unemotional, Aloof, Withdrawn, Rarefied, Restrained, Undemonstrative, Reticent, Booked

Guileless, Undemonstrative, Sheepish, Timorous, Imperturbable, Bashful, Reticent, Unassertive, Taciturn, Coy, Reserved, Unsure, Shy, Unconfident, Timid

Allotted, Indrawn, Engaged, Distant, Rarified, Diffident, Bookable, Unemotional, Aloof, Withdrawn, Rarefied, Restrained, Undemonstrative, Reticent, Booked

Guileless, Undemonstrative, Sheepish, Timorous, Imperturbable, Bashful, Reticent, Unassertive, Taciturn, Coy, Reserved, Unsure, Shy, Unconfident, Timid

Reserved IP Address Code field of the ACK key record indicating that a reserved IP address is present for the return.
Simply arrive at your reserved time and the dining staff will seat you as close to your reserved time as possible.
City property where an area is by sign designated as reserved unless the area is reserved for such person or class of persons.
For Reserved Public IP, enter the reserved public IP you want to assign.
JUDGMENT RESERVED The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on CM.
Layers in which reserved field codes are not used must have placeholders in the reserved fields.
Reserved Lanes: On various roadways, one or more lanes may be reserved for special vehicles.
Reserved series plates are blocks of plate numbers pulled from regular issue, reserved for specific uses or government professions.
Reserved lanes are marked by signs stating the lane is reserved for special use.
Reserved Reserved NAND Flash Controller Altera Corporation Send Feedback.

Mandigora was diffident about his side's display in his post-match interview.
Media has been curtailed- a diffident media is deemed inimical to progress.
Tyrannies are perpetuated by diffident men who do not possess the courage to act out their beliefs.
Since she had become pregnant he had felt diffident.
The next tune, Kalijula, combines an insistent rhythm section figure with a slightly diffident alto line.
So fair, in fact, that I feel almost diffident about raising the next delicate point.
Charlotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday.
Berkeley, which leaves some in the audience diffident at best.
His manner was that of a diffident, retiring scholar.
That was an innermost hope phrased as diffident speculation.