confidential

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective entrusted with private information and the confidence of another
  2. adjective (of information) given in confidence or in secret
  3. adjective denoting confidence or intimacy

Etymology

From Latin cōnfīdentia + English -al. Possibly a calque of French confidentiel. First attested in 1641.

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