self-confident

comparative more self-confident · superlative most self-confident

1. Confident in one's own abilities.

   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.

   1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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   Alternatively, one could hope that Californication works: that large numbers of people of immensely diverse racial, ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds really can mix and blend while yet retaining a sufficiently common civic culture for America to survive as a free, democratic and self-confident nation.

   2003 August 14, Timothy Garton Ash, “God's crucible”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021

   Synonyms: selfsecure