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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): /?k?n.f?.d?nt/, [?k???.f?.dn?t]
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?n.f?.d?nt/, [?k???.f?.dn?t]
- Hyphenation: con?fi?dent
Adjective
confident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)
- Very sure of something; positive.
- Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
- (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.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.2:
Synonyms
- (self-confident): self-assured
Antonyms
- (self-confident): insecure, self-destructive
Related terms
- confidant
- confidante
- confide
- confidence
- confidential
- overconfident
- self-confident
Translations
Noun
confident (plural confidents)
- Obsolete form of confidant.
- 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League (originally in French by Louis Maimbourg)
- He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied
- a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels
- 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League (originally in French by Louis Maimbourg)
Further reading
- confident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- confident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.fi.d??/
Noun
confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)
- confidant
Related terms
- confidence
Further reading
- “confident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
c?nf?dent
- third-person plural future active indicative of c?nf?d?
Romanian
Etymology
From French confident
Noun
confident m (plural confiden?i)
- confidant
Declension
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