confident
Syllables: con·fi·dentUK/ˈkɒnfɪdənt//ˈkɑnfɪdənt/
confident adjective: very sure of something; positive. Also the obsolete form of confidant.
Adjective
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.
- Synonyms:
- sure-footed
- Forward, impudent.
- I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.2
Also used as
confident is also the obsolete form of confidant.
confident meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
confident in Hindi
- being very sure of or positive about something
- आश्वस्त āśvast, विश्वास viśvās
confident in Marathi
- आत्मविश्वासी
confident in Bengali
- আত্মবিশ্বাসী
confident in Malayalam
- ആത്മവിശ്വാസമുള്ളവർ
More languagesFewer languages
- confident in Odia
- ଆତ୍ମବିଶ୍ୱାସୀ
- confident in Arabic
- وَاثِق wāṯiq, مُتَأَكِّد mutaʔakkid
- confident in Indonesian
- yakin
- confident in Persian
- مطمئن motma'en, دلاستوار delostovār, استوار ostovār, گستاخ gostāx
- confident in Thai
- มั่นใจ mân-jai
- confident in Vietnamese
- tự tin
Examples of confident in a sentence
- After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.
- Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.
- The manufacturer's CEO was confident enough to ride as a passenger on the airship's maiden flight.
Synonyms of confident
Antonyms
Forms of confident
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more confident |
| superlative | most confident |
| Noun | |
| plural | confidents |
Origin of confident
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.
Words formed from confident
Questions about confident
- What does confident mean?
- Confident means very sure of something; positive.
- What is confident in Hindi?
- Confident in Hindi is आश्वस्त (āśvast), विश्वास (viśvās). See Confident meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is confident?
- Confident is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce confident?
- Confident is pronounced /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/ (UK).
Words near confident in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: confident (page history and authors); confident (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); confident (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); confident (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); confident (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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