confidential

English

Etymology

From Latin confidentia +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːnfɪˈdenʃl/

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Adjective

confidential (comparative more confidential, superlative most confidential)

1. Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly

   The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.

2. (dated) Inclined to share confidences.

   Sitting in front of the fire, they became quite confidential, and began to gossip.

Synonyms

• dern

Translations

meant to be kept secret within a certain circle

• Arabic: سَرِّيّ‏‎ (sarriyy), خُصُوصِيّ‏‎ (ḵuṣūṣiyy)
• Bulgarian: таен (bg) (táen), поверителен (bg) (poverítelen)
• Catalan: confidencial
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機密 (zh), 机密 (zh) (jīmì), 機要 (zh), 机要 (zh) (jīyào)

• Czech: důvěrný m
• Dutch: vertrouwelijk (nl)
• Finnish: luottamuksellinen, salassa pidettävä
• French: confidentiel (fr)
• German: vertraulich (de)
• Hebrew: חסוי‏‎ (khasui)
• Hungarian: bizalmas (hu), titkos (hu)
• Icelandic: leynilegur (is), heimullegur
• Irish: rúnda
• Italian: confidenziale (it), riservato (it)
• Japanese: 親展 (しんてん, shinten)
• Maori: matatapu

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konfidensiell, fortrolig (no)

  Nynorsk: konfidensiell

• Polish: poufny (pl)
• Portuguese: confidencial, secreto (pt)
• Romanian: confidențial (ro)
• Russian: конфиденциа́льный (ru) (konfidenciálʹnyj), та́йный (ru) (tájnyj), довери́тельный (ru) (doverítelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìomhair, diùrraiseach, fo rùn
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поверљив

  Roman: poverljiv (sh)

• Slovene: zaupen
• Spanish: confidencial (es)
• Swedish: konfidentiell (sv)
• Thai: ลับเฉพาะ (láp chàpór), ลับ (th) (láp)
• Turkish: mahrem (tr)

Derived terms

• confide