confident

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English

Etymology

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɔɱ.fɪ.dənt], [-dn̩t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fə.dənt], [-dn̩t]
• Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dent

Adjective

confident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)

1. Very sure of something; positive.

2. Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
3. (obsolete, derogatory) Forward, impudent.

Synonyms

• (self-confident): self-assured

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “self-confident”): insecure, self-destructive, shy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

confident (plural confidents)

1. Obsolete form of confidant.

Further reading

• “confident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “confident”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cōnfīdēns. In the sense of "courting bench", a semantic loan from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuɱ.fiˈðen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [koɱ.fiˈðent]

Adjective

confident m or f (masculine and feminine plural confidents)

1. trusted

Noun

confident m or f by sense (plural confidents)

1. confidant(e)
2. informer

Noun

confident m (plural confidents)

1. tête-à-tête (s-shaped love seat)

Related terms

• confidència
• confidencial

Further reading

• “confident”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian confidente

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃/

Noun

confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)

1. confidant
2. tête-à-tête (love seat in an s-shape)

Related terms

• confidence

Descendants

• → Catalan: confident (calque)

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

cōnfīdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfīdō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French confident.

Noun

confident m (plural confidenți)

1. confidant

Declension