confident

Examples

• All

• I'm confident it will be resolved quickly and efficiently.

  Welcome to the Punch (2013)

• Do you feel comfortable and confident in your own skin?

• Take it, be confident with it, work hard.

• Why are we so confident about what we see?

• I felt free, confident, happy and at peace with myself.

  Sunny Lenarduzzi

• And each time we get more confident that it works.

• How confident should we be that this will be a fair election?

  2000 Mules (2022)

• What makes you so confident?

  The Cobweb (1955)

• Eighty-one percent of the students reported feeling confident approaching patients in the hospital once they had done so.

  Academic text (2011)

• Teachers also did not feel confident about their ability to manage mental health situations in their classrooms.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

S

sure

vsconfident

∞ 1.0

Feeling no doubt about something

covers both no-doubt feelings and personal self-assurance

C

certain

vsconfident

840 1.0

Feeling sure and having no doubt

also includes self-assurance about abilities as well as facts

P

positive

vsconfident

695 2.8

Having a confident or approving attitude

is the plain feeling of assurance without extra approval tone

C

convinced

vsconfident

466 2.8

Feeling sure that something is true

includes that sure belief but also general self-assurance

S

secure

vsconfident

117 3.6

Feeling confident and free from worry or doubt

is the general feeling of assurance, not limited to security from fear

C

cocky

vsconfident

• Informal

99 4.2

Being too confident and acting proud so other people dislike you

is simply self-assurance without the rude or boastful tone

C

certain of

vsconfident

49 2.7

Sure that something is true or will happen

is wider, covering both belief about events and self-belief

F

feeling confident

vsconfident

46 3.0

Being sure you can do something well

is the general feeling of assurance about self or matters

O

overconfident

vsconfident

19 5.3

To believe you can do more than you really can

is balanced assurance rather than an exaggerated or risky belief

S

self-assured

vsconfident

11 4.1

Confident about your abilities and decisions

is the broader sense of being sure about self or things

S

self-confident

vsconfident

11 3.2

Feeling sure about your own abilities and worth

applies to both belief about self and belief about things

S

self-possessed

vsconfident

3 7.2

Calm and confident in control of your feelings in difficult situations

is the overall sense of self-assurance without emphasis on composure

C

cocksure

vsconfident

3 8.2

Being too confident in a proud, annoying way

is regular assurance without arrogance or presumptuousness

A

assured

vsconfident

4.1

Confident and steady in voice or movement

is the general emotional state of feeling sure or self-assured

U

ultraconfident

vsconfident

5.8

Very sure about yourself and what you can do

is moderate assurance rather than an extreme degree of certainty

S

superconfident

vsconfident

• Informal

5.2

Feeling very sure about your abilities and success

represents the basic feeling of assurance without extreme intensity

Antonyms

I

insecure

131 3.4

Not confident about yourself or your skills

D

doubtful

25 3.0

Not sure about something and not ready to believe it

D

diffident

4 8.0

Shy and not confident about speaking or acting in front of others

Compounds

F

feeling confident

46 3.0

Being sure you can do something well

How Confident

certain

840 1.0

self-assured

11 4.1

confident

715 2.5

unsure

89 1.5

insecure

131 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology