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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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It’s unclear who will step in while the guitarist is focusing on his health, but Noodles appears confident the band has it covered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

He said his firm assesses how confident it is in the funds and what the funds can do for its clients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Participants from both Western European and East Asian cultures watched and listened to different versions of the speakers before rating how confident their answers appeared.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Here are some recommendations for what to read, watch, and cook this evening that my colleagues are pretty confident won’t fall outside your margin of error:

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

The polite thing to say about this letter is that it is confident.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day


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