confident
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
confident
- Very sure of something; positive.
- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
- Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
- (obsolete, in negative sense) Forward, impudent.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.2:
- I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.2:
- (self-confident) self-assured
- (self-confident) insecure, self-destructive
- French: assuré, confiant, sûr
- German: zuversichtlich, sicher
- Italian: fiducioso, sicuro
- Portuguese: confiante, seguro
- Russian: уве́ренный
- Spanish: confiado, seguro de sí mismo
confident (plural confidents)
- Obsolete form of confidant#English|confidant.
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