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
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːnfɪdənt/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Adjective

confident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)

  1. very sure of something; positive
    I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
  2. self-confident

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations
self-confident — see self-confident

Noun

confident (plural confidents)

  1. Obsolete form of confidant.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for confident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Further reading

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)

  1. confidant

Further reading

Latin

Verb

cōnfīdent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfīdō
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