confident

English

Etymology

From Middle French confident, 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dənt/, [ˈkʰɒɱ.fə.dn̩t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dənt/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fə.dn̩t]

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dent

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-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
3. (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.

Synonyms

• (self-confident): self-assured

Antonyms

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

Related terms

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

Translations

being very sure of or positive about something

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: وَاثِق‎ m (wāṯiq), مُتَأَكِّد‎ (mutaʾakkid)
• Armenian: վստահ (hy) (vstah)
• Azerbaijani: arxayın
• Belarusian: упэ́ўнены (upéŭnjeny), пэ́ўны (be) (péŭny)
• Bulgarian: си́гурен (bg) (síguren), уве́рен (bg) (uvéren)
• Catalan: confiat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 確信 (zh), 确信 (zh) (quèxìn)

• Czech: jistý (cs) m
• Dutch: vol vertrouwen
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: luottavainen (fi), itsevarma (fi)
• French: assuré (fr), confiant (fr), sûr (fr)
• Georgian: დარწმუნებული (darc̣munebuli)
• German: zuversichtlich (de), sicher (de)
• Hebrew: בטוח‎ (he) m (bat'uakh), בטוחה‎ f (bet'ukha)
• Hungarian: bizakodó (hu), biztos (hu)
• Ido: certigeso
• Indonesian: yakin (id)
• Irish: urrúsach
• Italian: fiducioso (it), sicuro (it)

• Japanese: 確信した (ja) (かくしんした, kakushin shita)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: pārliecināts
• Maori: ngākau titikaha, māia
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: مطمئن‎ (fa) (motma'en)
• Plautdietsch: driest
• Polish: pewny (pl)
• Portuguese: confiante (pt), seguro (pt) m
• Romanian: sigur (ro), încrezător (ro)
• Russian: уве́ренный (ru) (uvérennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: cinnteach, deimhinn, misneachail
• Slovak: istý
• Spanish: confiado (es), seguro de sí mismo
• Swedish: trygg (sv)
• Thai: มั่นใจ (th) (mân-jai)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: впе́внений (vpévnenyj), пе́вний (uk) (pévnyj)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Winnebago: kiikarahi

self-confident — see self-confident

Noun

confident (plural confidents)

1. Obsolete form of confidant.
   • 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League (originally in French by Louis Maimbourg)

     He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied

   • 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions:

     a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels

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.
(See the entry for confident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Further reading

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

---

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)

1. confidant

Related terms

• confidence

Further reading

• “confident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

---

Latin

Verb

cōnfīdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfīdō

---

Romanian

Etymology

From French confident

Noun

confident m (plural confidenți)

1. confidant

Declension

Declension of confident

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) confident	confidentul	(niște) confidenti	confidentii
genitive/dative	(unui) confident	confidentului	(unor) confidenti	confidentilor
vocative	confidentule		confidentilor