confident
[ kon-fi-duhnt ]
/ ˈkɒn fɪ dənt /
adjective
having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
sure of oneself; having no uncertainty about one's own abilities, correctness, successfulness, etc.; self-confident; bold: a confident speaker.
excessively bold; presumptuous.
Obsolete.
trustful or confiding.
noun
a confidant.
Origin of confident
SYNONYMS FOR confident
OTHER WORDS FROM confident
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH confident
confidant confidante confidentWords nearby confident
Example sentences from the Web for unconfident
The other end of the same phenomenon is you miss the first throw, you get unconfident, and you miss the second one as well.
Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks: The Science Behind Winning |Clark Merrefield |February 18, 2012 |DAILY BEASTIt's only the weak and unconfident that are threatened by such things.
Her standards of right and wrong were shaken; the wholesale assaults on her ideals left her shocked and unconfident.
The City of Delight |Elizabeth Miller
British Dictionary definitions for unconfident
confident
/ (ˈkɒnfɪdənt) /
adjective
(postpositive foll by of)
having or showing confidence or certainty; sure
confident of success
sure of oneself; bold
presumptuous; excessively bold
Derived forms of confident
confidently, adverbWord Origin for confident
C16: from Latin
confīdens trusting, having self-confidence, from
confīdere to have complete trust in; see
confide