confident

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Feeling sure of yourself and your abilities.

   She is a confident speaker who enjoys giving presentations.

2. 2
   adj

   Certain that something is true or will happen.

   I'm confident that we will win the match.

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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