Word.ws English Dictionary

unconfiding

unconfiding adjective: not inclined to share confidences; taciturn.

Adjective

unconfiding (comparative more unconfiding, superlative most unconfiding)

  1. Not inclined to share confidences; taciturn.
    • It was the merits of Sir Howard to which her attention was continually being attracted. Whence came it then that she still remained unconfiding and mistrustful of him?1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter I, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 5

Forms of unconfiding

comparativemore unconfiding
superlativemost unconfiding

Origin of unconfiding

From un- + confiding.

Questions about unconfiding

What does unconfiding mean?
Unconfiding means not inclined to share confidences; taciturn.
What part of speech is unconfiding?
Unconfiding is an adjective.

Words near unconfiding in the dictionary

  1. unconfided
  2. unconfidence
  3. unconfident
  4. unconfidential
  5. unconfidently
  6. unconfiding
  7. unconfigurable
  8. unconfigure
  9. unconfigured
  10. unconfigures
  11. unconfiguring

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unconfiding (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unconfiding.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unconfiding. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.