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]

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• 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)
• Belarusian: упэ́ўнены (upéŭnjeny), пэ́ўны (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, 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)
• Polish: pewny (pl)
• Portuguese: confiante (pt), seguro (pt) m
• 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.

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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.
(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, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃/

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Noun

confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)

1. confidant

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

cōnfīdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfīdō