confident
adjective
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Is it confident or confidant? (Or is it confidante?)
If you find yourself unsure whether you should choose confident or confidant don’t feel bad; confidant comes to English from the French word confident, and when the word first entered our language it was often spelled that way, rather than as confidant. The difference is quite simple: confidant is a noun (meaning "a person in whom you confide things"), and confident is an adjective (defined as “having confidence”). You may well be confident in your confidant, but you would not be confidant in your confident. Although this distinction has not always been observed by writers, confidante is generally used for a female confidant. The word confidant is more frequently used to describe a man, but it may be applied to either gender.
Examples of confident in a Sentence
Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Once a sense of consensus – or close enough – has been reached, group members can be confident that those who continue to disagree can be safely ignored or no longer tolerated.
—Jen Cole Wright, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
On the plus side, Luong is confident in keeping steady prices because Ampersand has other cost advantages.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025
Yet there was still time for defender Van Dijk, who Liverpool are confident of tying down to a new contract, to meet Alexis Mac Allister’s corner and seal all three points for Arne Slot’s team.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Confident.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confident. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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