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lacking confidence synonyms

Trying to find another word for lacking confidence in English? No problem. Our thesaurus contains synonyms of lacking confidence in 28 different contexts. We have listed all the similar and related words for lacking confidence alphabetically.

  • abashed
  • aghast
  • alarmed
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • aroused
  • blanched
  • cowardly
  • cowed
  • daunted
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismayed
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • faint-hearted
  • frightened
  • frozen
  • have cold feet
  • afraid
  • allergic
  • antagonistic
  • antipathetic
  • contrary
  • disinclined
  • disliking
  • having no use for
  • hesitant
  • hostile
  • ill-disposed
  • indisposed
  • inimical
  • loath
  • nasty
  • perverse
  • reluctant
  • uneager
  • unfavorable
  • aback
  • abaft
  • about
  • astern
  • back
  • behind
  • in reverse
  • inverted
  • rearward
  • turned around
  • amble
  • bum around
  • dally
  • diddle-daddle
  • dilly-dally
  • drag
  • fool around
  • fritter away
  • get no place fast
  • goof off
  • hang around
  • hang out
  • idle
  • lag
  • laze
  • lazy
  • loaf
  • loiter
  • loll
  • dilatory
  • procrastinating
  • backward
  • bashful
  • blenching
  • chary
  • constrained
  • coy
  • demure
  • distrustful
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • flinching
  • humble
  • insecure
  • meek
  • modest
  • mousy
  • rabbity
  • reluctant
  • reserved
  • afraid
  • antipathetic
  • averse
  • backward
  • balking
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • hesitating
  • indisposed
  • loath
  • not in the mood
  • objecting
  • opposed
  • protesting
  • reluctant
  • resistant
  • shy
  • shying
  • slow
  • ambiguous
  • borderline
  • chancy
  • clouded
  • contingent
  • debatable
  • dicey
  • disreputable
  • doubtable
  • dubious
  • dubitable
  • equivocal
  • far-fetched
  • fat chance
  • fishy
  • hazardous
  • hazy
  • iffy
  • impugnable
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • skeptical
  • suspicious
  • be undecided
  • bobble
  • break
  • drop the ball
  • flounder
  • fluctuate
  • fluff
  • halt
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • lurch
  • quaver
  • reel
  • rock
  • roll
  • scruple
  • shake
  • speak haltingly
  • stagger
  • apathetic
  • cool
  • impassive
  • indifferent
  • irresolute
  • lackluster
  • listless
  • lukewarm
  • neutral
  • passive
  • perfunctory
  • spiritless
  • tame
  • tepid
  • unenthusiastic
  • uninterested
  • awkward
  • bumbling
  • claudicant
  • clumsy
  • doubtful
  • faltering
  • gauche
  • imperfect
  • indecisive
  • inept
  • irresolute
  • labored
  • limping
  • lumbering
  • maladroit
  • slow
  • stammering
  • stumbling
  • stuttering
  • irresolute
  • skeptical
  • uncertain
  • unsure
  • astraddle
  • changeable
  • doubtful
  • faltering
  • halting
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot and cold
  • inconclusive
  • indeterminate
  • irresolute
  • of two minds
  • on the fence
  • tentative
  • unclear
  • undecided
  • undetermined
  • uneventful
  • changing
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • faltering
  • fearful
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • halfhearted
  • halting
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot-and-cold
  • infirm
  • on-the-fence
  • shaky
  • tentative
  • timid
  • uncertain
  • undecided
  • afraid
  • counter
  • disinclined
  • hesitant
  • indisposed
  • opposed
  • reluctant
  • remiss
  • resisting
  • uneager
  • unwilling
  • afraid
  • averse
  • backward
  • calculating
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • demurring
  • diffident
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • disinclined
  • grudging
  • hanging back
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • indisposed
  • involuntary
  • laggard
  • afraid
  • apprehensive
  • averse
  • backward
  • bashful
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • conscious
  • coy
  • demure
  • diffident
  • disinclined
  • distrustful
  • fearful
  • hesitant
  • humble
  • indisposed
  • introvert
  • agnostic
  • aporetic
  • cynical
  • dissenting
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • freethinking
  • hesitating
  • incredulous
  • mistrustful
  • questioning
  • quizzical
  • scoffing
  • show-me
  • suspicious
  • unbelieving
  • unconvinced
  • apathetic
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • dawdling
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • dilatory
  • disinclined
  • dreamy
  • drowsy
  • easy
  • gradual
  • heavy
  • idle
  • imperceptible
  • inactive
  • indolent
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • acting
  • ad interim
  • conjectural
  • contingent
  • dependent
  • iffy
  • indefinite
  • makeshift
  • not final
  • not settled
  • on trial
  • open for consideration
  • probationary
  • provisional
  • provisionary
  • provisory
  • speculative
  • subject to change
  • temporary
  • Milquetoast
  • afraid
  • ambivalent
  • apprehensive
  • badgered
  • bashful
  • browbeaten
  • bullied
  • capricious
  • cowardly
  • cowed
  • cowering
  • coy
  • daunted
  • demure
  • diffident
  • fainthearted
  • fearful
  • feeble
  • averse
  • backward
  • disinclined
  • hesitant
  • indisposed
  • loath
  • reluctant
  • sorry
  • unhappy
  • unwilling
  • capricious
  • chance
  • chancy
  • dicey
  • doubtful
  • erratic
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • fluky
  • from left field
  • hanging by a thread
  • iffy
  • incalculable
  • inconstant
  • random
  • touch and go
  • touchy
  • uncertain
  • unforeseeable
  • betwixt and between
  • borderline
  • distrustful
  • dubious
  • fluctuant
  • fly-by-night
  • hesitant
  • iffy
  • in a quandary
  • indecisive
  • indeterminate
  • irresolute
  • lacking
  • mistrustful
  • open
  • problematic
  • rootless
  • shaky
  • skeptical
  • afraid
  • against
  • against the grain
  • averse
  • backward
  • begrudging
  • compelled
  • contrary
  • demurring
  • disinclined
  • disobliging
  • evasive
  • forced
  • grudging
  • hesitating
  • indisposed
  • indocile
  • involuntary
  • laggard
  • changeable
  • fluctuating
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • inconstant
  • irresolute
  • oscillating
  • shifting
  • swaying
  • tentative
  • uncertain
  • undecided
  • unsure
  • vibrating
  • volatile
  • wavering
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • hesitating
  • irresoluteoscillating
  • undecided
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unsure
  • vacillating
  • variable
  • waffling

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