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"roman": "zasténčivyj",
"sense": "lacking confidence in oneself",
"word": "засте́нчивый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "róbkij",
"sense": "lacking confidence in oneself",
"word": "ро́бкий"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lacking confidence in oneself",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "не̏сигӯран"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lacking confidence in oneself",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "срамежљив"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lacking confidence in oneself",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "nȅsigūran"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lacking confidence in oneself",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "sramežljiv"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking confidence in oneself",
"word": "apocado"
}
],
"word": "diffident"
}
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"msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: , ",
"path": [
"diffident"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "diffident",
"trace": ""
}
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"msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: , ",
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}
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"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: t {1: 'es', 2: 'desconfiado(a)'}",
"path": [
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],
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"title": "diffident",
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}
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"title": "diffident",
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}
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}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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