self-confident
adjEtymology From self- + confident.
1
Confident in one's own abilities.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- selfsecure
- Antonyms
- insecure
- Derived terms
- self-confidently