confident
[kon-fi-duhnt]
- having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
- sure of oneself; having no uncertainty about one's own abilities, correctness, successfulness, etc.; self-confident; bold: a confident speaker.
- excessively bold; presumptuous.
- Obsolete. trustful or confiding.
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- a confidant.
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Origin of confident
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Contemporary Examples
The other end of the same phenomenon is you miss the first throw, you get unconfident, and you miss the second one as well.
It's only the weak and unconfident that are threatened by such things.
Historical Examples
Her standards of right and wrong were shaken; the wholesale assaults on her ideals left her shocked and unconfident.
The City of DelightElizabeth Miller
confident
- (postpositive foll by of) having or showing confidence or certainty; sureconfident of success
- sure of oneself; bold
- presumptuous; excessively bold
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin confīdens trusting, having self-confidence, from confīdere to have complete trust in; see confide
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confident
adj.
1570s, "self-reliant, sure of oneself," from Middle French confident, from Latin confidentem (nominative confidens) "firmly trusting, reliant, self-confident, bold, daring," present participle of confidere (see confidence). Related: Confidently.
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