confident
adjetivosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
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Very sure of something; positive.
adjetivo
- 1
Very sure of something; positive.
I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
He was confident of success.
- 2
Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
- 3
obsoletoForward, impudent.
I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.
Etimologia
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.
substantivo
- 1
Variante de confidantobsoletoObsolete form of confidant.
He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied
a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels
Formas
- plural
- confidents
- comparativo
- more confident
- superlativo
- most confident