# confident
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɔɱ.fɪ.dənt], [-dn̩t]
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fə.dənt], [-dn̩t]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: con‧fi‧dent

### Adjective

confident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)
* Very sure of something; positive.
    I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
    He was confident of success.
* Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
* (obsolete, derogatory) Forward, impudent.
** 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.2:I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.

#### Synonyms

* (self-confident): self-assured

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “self-confident”): insecure, self-destructive, shy

#### Derived terms

* confidently
* confidentness
* hyperconfident
* inconfident
* misconfident
* nonconfident
* semiconfident
* superconfident
* ultraconfident
* unconfident
* underconfident

#### Related terms

* confidant
* confidante
* confide
* confidence
* confidential
* e-confident
* overconfident
* self-confident

#### Translations
### Noun

confident (plural confidents)
* Obsolete form of confidant.
** 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg:He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied
** 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels

#### Further reading

* “confident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “confident”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin cōnfīdēns. In the sense of "courting bench", a semantic loan from French.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kuɱ.fiˈðen]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [koɱ.fiˈðent]

### Adjective

confident m or f (masculine and feminine plural confidents)
* trusted

### Noun

confident m or f by sense (plural confidents)
* confidant(e)
* informer

### Noun

confident m (plural confidents)
* tête-à-tête (s-shaped love seat)

### Related terms

* confidència
* confidencial

### Further reading

* “confident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

confident m (plural confidents, feminine confidente)
* confidant
* tête-à-tête (love seat in an s-shape)

#### Related terms

* confidence

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: confident (calque)

### Further reading

* “confident”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

cōnfīdent
* third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfīdō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French confident.

### Noun

confident m (plural confidenți)
* confidant