unconfiding

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adjective

Not inclined to share confidences; taciturn.

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Meanings

adjectiveunconfiding (comparative more unconfiding, superlative most unconfiding)

comparative more unconfiding · superlative most unconfiding

  1. Not inclined to share confidences; taciturn.

    It was the merits of Sir Howard to which her attention was continually being attracted. Whence came it then that she still remained unconfiding and mistrustful of him?

    1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter I, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 5

Origin

From un- + confiding.

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unconfiding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconfiding

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unconfiding,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconfiding.

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