self-assured

See also: selfassured

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

English assured

English self-assured

From self- + assured.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

self-assured (comparative more self-assured, superlative most self-assured)

1. Assured by or of one's self; confident in one's own abilities.

   Synonym: assured

   Coordinate terms: self-righteous; self-satisfied; smug; complacent

   self-assured display

   self-assured girl

Derived terms

• self-assuredly
• self-assuredness

Translations

confident on one's abilities

• Catalan: segur d'un mateix m
• Dutch: zelfverzekerd (nl)
• Finnish: itsevarma (fi)
• French: sûr de soi, plein d'assurance
• German: selbstsicher (de)
• Hungarian: magabiztos (hu)
• Irish: diongbháilte
• Italian: sicuro di sé
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvsikker

• Polish: pewny siebie (pl)
• Portuguese: seguro de si
• Russian: самоуве́ренный (ru) (samouvérennyj)
• Spanish: seguro de si mismo
• Swedish: självsäker (sv)
• Turkish: kendinden emin, kendine güvenen

See also

• self-insured

References

• “self-assured”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.