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confident

adj
/ˈkɒnfɪdənt/UK/ˈkɑnfɪdənt/US/ˈkɔnfɪɖəɳʈ/

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.

  1. derived from confidens
  2. derived from confident

Definitions

  1. Very sure of something

    Very sure of something; positive.

    • I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
    • He was confident of success.

  2. Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.

  3. Forward, impudent.

    • I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Obsolete form of confidant.

      • He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied
      • a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels

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Derived

confidently, confidentness, e-confident, hyperconfident, inconfident, misconfident, nonconfident, overconfident, self-confident, semiconfident, superconfident, ultraconfident, unconfident, underconfident

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at confident. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01confident02self-reliant03reliant04reliance05rely06confidence07self-assurance

A definitional loop anchored at confident. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at confident

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA