confident

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dənt/, [ˈkʰɒɱ.fə.dn̩t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dənt/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fə.dn̩t]

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• Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dent

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.

   He was confident of success.

2. Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
3. (obsolete, in negative sense) 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.

• (self-confident): self-assured

• (self-confident): insecure, self-destructive

• confidant
• confidante
• confide
• confidence
• confidential
• e-confident
• overconfident
• self-confident

confident (plural confidents)

1. 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, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels

• confident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• confident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃/

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confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)

1. confidant

• confidence

• “confident”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cōnfīdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfīdō

From French confident.

confident m (plural confidenți)

1. confidant