Confident Feel Feeling Ability Adjective ˈkɒnfɪdənt ˈkɑːnfɪdənt Relaxed

• she was in a relaxed, confident mood.
• beneath his confident and charming exterior, lurked a mass of insecurities.
• i was actually fairly confident about my chances.
• the teacher wants the children to feel confident about asking questions when they don't understand.

confident

1. feeling sure about your own ability to do things and be successful
• SEE ALSO self-confident
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• She was in a relaxed, confident mood.
• Beneath his confident and charming exterior, lurked a mass of insecurities.
• I was actually fairly confident about my chances.
• The teacher wants the children to feel confident about asking questions when they don't understand.
• He'd learned to be confident in his ability to handle anything life threw at him.

Extra Examples

• Going to university has made her more confident.
• He was overly confident, perhaps to the point of arrogance.
• He's becoming more confident as he gets older.
• She gradually grew more confident.
• She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident.
• You get young people who appear to be socially confident, but inside they are a bundle of neuroses.
• They gave a very confident performance of the piece.
• I'm very confident in our ability to maintain leadership.
2. feeling certain that something will happen in the way that you want or expect
• The Democrats were confident of victory.
• The team feels confident of winning.
• We are confident about the future.
• I'm confident that you will get the job.
• He said he remained confident that the dispute could be resolved.
• We're pretty confident we can win the case.
• She was quietly confident that everything would go as planned.

Extra Examples

• I'm quite confident that you'll get the job.
• We feel confident that these results are accurate.
• I'm fully confident of winning the title.
• I'm 95% confident of success.
• They gave a confident prediction that things would improve.
• He came out of the interview feeling quietly confident.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent.: from French confident(e), from Italian confidente, from Latin confident- ‘having full trust’, from the verb confidere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + fidere ‘trust’.