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confident

[kon-fi-duhnt] / ˈkɒn fɪ dənt /




Usage

What are other ways to say confident? The adjective confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt. Positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism. Certain suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt. Sure, the simplest and most general term, expresses mere absence of doubt. 

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They’d have to be confident, though, that they’d never need to tap their savings in an emergency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Dan Ivascyn of Pimco Income Fund, the world’s largest actively managed fixed-income fund, was confident in the prediction he made at a New York investment conference.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Broking, the CEO, said he was confident the company could handle the steel-mill construction after finding its footing with the iron-ore mine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"I would suddenly feel like a confident person, and I had all these ideas, and I was very sociable, thinking how many things can I fit into my diary," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

She tried to make her face into something confident and un-concerned.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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