Definition of Confident
Confident
con·fi·dent


Definition/Meaning
(adjective)
feeling or showing assurance in oneself and one's abilities, feeling or showing faith in or reliance on something or someone;

e.g. It would be helpful to hire someone who is confident and who speaks their mind.

(adjective)
having or showing conviction or certainty of something;

e.g. I am confident that we will be able to arrive in time.

(adjective)
showing a readiness/willingness to trust or confide in someone;

e.g. She is confident of them and will thus tell them anything.

(noun)
in old usage, a person with whom someone shares a private or secret matter with the trust that will not share it with anyone else, i.e. a confidant;

e.g. He took me as his confident and told me what was bothering him.





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