self-confident

English

Etymology

self- +‎ confident

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

1. Confident in one's own abilities.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.

Synonyms

• selfsecure

Antonyms

• insecure

Translations

confident in one's abilities

• Armenian: ինքնավստահ (hy) (inkʻnavstah)
• Catalan: segur (ca), segur de sí mateix
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自信 (zh) (zìxìn)

• Czech: sebevědomý (cs) m
• Dutch: zelfverzekerd (nl)
• Esperanto: memcerta
• Finnish: itsevarma (fi)
• French: sûr de soi
• Galician: afouto
• Georgian: თავდაჯერებული (tavdaǯerebuli)
• German: selbstsicher (de)
• Hungarian: magabiztos (hu)
• Icelandic: sjálfsöruggur
• Irish: féinmhuiníneach
• Italian: spigliato (it), baldo (it), baldanzoso (it), sicuro di sé
• Japanese: 自信がある (ja) (じしんがある, jishin ga aru)
• Korean: 자신 있다 (jasin itda)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: jixwebawer (ku)

• Maori: whakatoatoa, māia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvsikker

• Persian: با اعتمادبه‌نفس (bâ e'temâd-be-nafs)
• Polish: pewny siebie (pl) m
• Portuguese: seguro de si
• Romanian: încrezător (ro) m
• Russian: уве́ренный в себе́ (uvérennyj v sebé)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самопоуздан, самоуверен / самоувјерен

  Roman: samopòuzdān (sh), samoùveren (sh) / samoùvjeren (sh)

• Spanish: seguro de sí mismo, seguro (es)
• Swedish: självsäker (sv)
• Turkish: kendinden emin