confident
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɔɱ.fɪ.dənt], [-dn̩t]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fə.dənt], [-dn̩t]
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dent
Adjective
[edit]confident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)
- Very sure of something; positive.
- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
- He was confident of success.
- Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
- (obsolete, derogatory) 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (self-confident): self-assured
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “self-confident”): insecure, self-destructive, shy
Derived terms
[edit]{{col-auto|en|confidently|confidentness|hyperconfident|inconfident|misconfident|nonconfident|semiconfident|superconfident|ultraconfident|unconfident|underconfident
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Noun
[edit]confident (plural confidents)
- Obsolete form of confidant.
- 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg:
- He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels
Further reading
[edit]- “confident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “confident”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cōnfīdēns. In the sense of "courting bench", a semantic loan from French.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]confident m or f (masculine and feminine plural confidents)
Noun
[edit]confident m or f by sense (plural confidents)
Noun
[edit]confident m (plural confidents)
- tête-à-tête (s-shaped love seat)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “confident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)
- confidant
- tête-à-tête (love seat in an s-shape)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: confident (calque)
Further reading
[edit]- “confident”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]cōnfīdent
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French confident.
Noun
[edit]confident m (plural confidenți)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) confident | confidentul | (niște) confidenti | confidentii |
genitive/dative | (unui) confident | confidentului | (unor) confidenti | confidentilor |
vocative | confidentule | confidentilor |
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