✅ Broad-minded means free from prejudice, bigotry, or bias (a broad-minded and empathetic work).
✅ Humanistic means being focused on human welfare, including making sure other humans are happy and safe (a humanistic proposal).
✅ Both of these words emphasize care for the safety and comfort of your fellow humans, and both can be political or philosophical positions.
✅ Broad-minded emphasizes a lack of bias, whereas humanistic emphasizes treating others with respect.
✅ Confident describes someone who has a strong belief in something and is completely certain (I was confident I would get a good score).
✅ Sure describes someone who is convinced or lacks doubt (I am sure I locked the door).
✅ Both of these words refer to lacking doubt and believing in yourself or something that you’ve done (I’m confident that I can do this; I’m sure I’m right).
✅ Sure can be used to refer to a previous sense of confidence that was misplaced (I was sure he would never betray me).
✅ Unemotional describes someone who isn’t experiencing strong feelings or who doesn’t appear to be experiencing such feelings (an unemotional reaction to the news).
✅ Glacial describes someone who is particularly cold and unsympathetic (a glacial response).
✅ Both of these words describe people who do not express warm feelings when you might expect them to.
✅ Unemotional suggests a lack of feelings, whereas glacial suggests the presence of negative feelings, such as disdain, which are expressed in a detached way.