confident

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective having or marked by confidence or assurance
  2. adjective persuaded of; very sure
  3. adjective not liable to error in judgment or action; - Walter Lippman; - Michiko Kakutani

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.

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