Meanings
adjectiveconfident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)
comparative more confident · superlative most confident
- Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
Synonyms: sure-footed · Antonyms: insecure, shy
nounconfident (plural confidents)
plural confidents
- obsoleteObsolete form of confidant.
a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London1 more example
He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied
1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg
Synonyms & antonyms
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adjectivehaving or marked by confidence or assurance
Opposite
adjectivenot liable to error in judgment or action
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Origin
- Latinconfidens“confident, i.e. self-confident, in a good or bad sense, bold, daring, audacious, impudent”
- Middle Frenchconfident
- Englishconfident
From Middle French confident, from Latin confidens (“confident, i.e. self-confident, in a good or bad sense, bold, daring, audacious, impudent”), present participle of confidere (“to trust fully, confide”). See confide.
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Arabic وَاثِق, مُتَأَكِّد
- وَاثِق (wāṯiq)being very sure of or positive about something
- مُتَأَكِّد (mutaʔakkid)being very sure of or positive about something
Bulgarian си́гурен, уве́рен
- си́гурен (síguren)being very sure of or positive about something
- уве́рен (uvéren)being very sure of or positive about something
Catalan confiat
- confiatbeing very sure of or positive about something
Chinese Mandarin 確信 /确信
- 確信 /确信 (quèxìn)being very sure of or positive about something
Czech jistý
- jistýbeing very sure of or positive about something
Dutch vol vertrouwen
- vol vertrouwenbeing very sure of or positive about something
Esperanto fida
- fidabeing very sure of or positive about something
Finnish luottavainen, itsevarma
- luottavainenbeing very sure of or positive about something
- itsevarmabeing very sure of or positive about something
French assuré, confiant
- assurébeing very sure of or positive about something
- confiantbeing very sure of or positive about something
- sûrbeing very sure of or positive about something
German zuversichtlich, sicher
- zuversichtlichbeing very sure of or positive about something
- sicherbeing very sure of or positive about something
Hebrew בטוח
- בטוח (bat'uakh)being very sure of or positive about something
Hindi आश्वस्त, विश्वास
- आश्वस्त (āśvast)being very sure of or positive about something
- विश्वास (viśvās)being very sure of or positive about something
Hungarian bizakodó, biztos
- bizakodóbeing very sure of or positive about something
- biztosbeing very sure of or positive about something
Indonesian yakin
- yakinbeing very sure of or positive about something
Irish urrúsach
- urrúsachbeing very sure of or positive about something
Italian fiducioso, sicuro
- fiduciosobeing very sure of or positive about something
- sicurobeing very sure of or positive about something
Japanese 確信した
- 確信した (kakushin shita)being very sure of or positive about something
Korean 확신하다
- 확신하다 (hwaksinhada)being very sure of or positive about something
Latin certus
- certusbeing very sure of or positive about something
Latvian pārliecināts
- pārliecinātsbeing very sure of or positive about something
Māori ngākau titikaha, māia
- ngākau titikahabeing very sure of or positive about something
- māiabeing very sure of or positive about something
Persian مطمئن, دلاستوار
- مطمئن (motma'en)being very sure of or positive about something
- دلاستوار (delostovār)being very sure of or positive about something
- استوار (ostovār)being very sure of or positive about something
- گستاخ (gostāx)being very sure of or positive about something
Polish pewny, pewien
- pewnybeing very sure of or positive about something
- pewienbeing very sure of or positive about something
- przeświadczonybeing very sure of or positive about something
Portuguese confiante, seguro
- confiantebeing very sure of or positive about something
- segurobeing very sure of or positive about something
Romanian sigur, încrezător
- sigurbeing very sure of or positive about something
- încrezătorbeing very sure of or positive about something
Russian уве́ренный
- уве́ренный (uvérennyj)being very sure of or positive about something
Scottish Gaelic cinnteach, deimhinn
- cinnteachbeing very sure of or positive about something
- deimhinnbeing very sure of or positive about something
- misneachailbeing very sure of or positive about something
Slovak istý
- istýbeing very sure of or positive about something
Spanish confiado, lleno de confianza
- confiadobeing very sure of or positive about something
- lleno de confianzabeing very sure of or positive about something
- segurobeing very sure of or positive about something
- tener la confianza debeing very sure of or positive about something
- tener la confianza parabeing very sure of or positive about something
- sentirse confiadobeing very sure of or positive about something
Swedish trygg
- tryggbeing very sure of or positive about something
Thai มั่นใจ
- มั่นใจ (mân-jai)being very sure of or positive about something
Turkish emin
- eminbeing very sure of or positive about something
Ukrainian впе́внений, пе́вний
- впе́внений (vpévnenyj)being very sure of or positive about something
- пе́вний (pévnyj)being very sure of or positive about something
Vietnamese tự tin
- tự tinbeing very sure of or positive about something
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