confident

English

Etymology

From Latin confidens (“confident, i.e. self-confident, in good or bad sense, bold, daring, audacious, impudent”), present participle of confidere (“to trust fully, confide”); see confide.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɑːnfɪdənt/

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Adjective

confident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)

1. very sure of something; positive

   I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.

2. self-confident

   I was impressed by this confidence at such a young age.

Antonyms

• (self-confident): insecure, self-destructive

Synonyms

• (self-confident): self-assured

Related terms

• confidant
• confidante
• confide
• confidence
• confidential
• overconfident
• self-confident

Translations

being very sure of or positive about something

• Arabic: واثق (ar) (wāṯiq) m, واثقة (ar) (wāṯiqa) f
• Bulgarian: сигурен (bg) (siguren), уверен (bg) (uveren)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 確信 (cmn), 确信 (cmn) (quèxìn)

• Finnish: luottavainen (fi), itsevarma (fi)
• French: assuré (fr), confiant (fr), sûr (fr)
• Georgian: დარწმუნებული (ka) (darcmunebuli)
• German: zuversichtlich (de), sicher (de)
• Hebrew: בטוח (he) (bat'uakh) m, בטוחה (he) (bet'ukha) f

• Hungarian: bizakodó (hu)
• Ido: certigeso
• Irish: urrúsach (ga)
• Italian: fiducioso (it), sicuro (it)
• Japanese: 確信する (ja) (かくしんする, kakushin suru)
• Polish: pewny (pl)
• Portuguese: confiante (pt)
• Russian: уверенный (ru) (uvérennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: cinnteach (gd), deimhinn (gd), misneachail (gd)

self-confident — see self-confident

Noun

confident (plural confidents)

1. Obsolete form of confidant.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

External links

• confident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• confident in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /kO~.fi.dA~/

Noun

confident m (plural confidents; feminine confidente, plural confidentes)

1. confidant

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Latin

Verb

cōnfīdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfīdō