confident
adjUK /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/ · US /ˈkɑnfɪdənt/
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
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
Derogatory, Obsolete 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:
- Derived terms
- confidently, confidentness, e-confident, hyperconfident, inconfident, misconfident, nonconfident, overconfident, self-confident, semiconfident, superconfident, ultraconfident, unconfident, underconfident
- Related terms
- confidant, confidante, confide, confidence, confidential