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inconfident

inconfident adjective: unconfident; lacking confidence.

Adjective

inconfident (comparative more inconfident, superlative most inconfident)

  1. (rare) unconfident; lacking confidence
    • This is in perfect accord with our finding that the confident judgment of a given subject is more liable to be correct than an inconfident one by the same subject.1914, American Psychological Association, Psychological monographs, volume 17, page 50

Forms of inconfident

comparativemore inconfident
superlativemost inconfident

Origin of inconfident

From in- + confident.

Questions about inconfident

What does inconfident mean?
Inconfident means unconfident; lacking confidence.
What part of speech is inconfident?
Inconfident is an adjective.

Words near inconfident in the dictionary

  1. incondonable
  2. inconducive
  3. inconel
  4. inconels
  5. inconfidence
  6. inconfident
  7. inconfinable
  8. inconform
  9. inconformable
  10. inconformably
  11. inconformities

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