underconfident

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English

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Etymology

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From under- +‎ confident.

Adjective

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underconfident (not comparable)

  1. Insufficiently confident; lacking confidence
    • 1949, Geraldine Saltberg, Our Teachers Mold Our Nation's Future[1], page 155:
      In some ways, all people are underconfident.

Antonyms

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