Confidentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dənt/, [ˈkʰɒɱ.fə.dn̩t]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dənt/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fə.dn̩t]
• ハイフネーション: con‧fi‧dent

形容詞

confident (comparative more confident, superlative most confident)

1. Very sure of something; positive.

   I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.

2. Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
3. (obsolete, in negative sense) Forward, impudent.
   • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, I.2:

     I was rated as the most confident ruffian, for daring to approach her room at that hour of night.

同意語

• (self-confident): self-assured

反意語

• (self-confident): insecure, self-destructive

関連する語

• confidant
• confidante
• confide
• confidence
• confidential
• overconfident
• self-confident

名詞

confident (複数形 confidents)

1. Obsolete form of confidant.
   • 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League (originally in French by Louis Maimbourg)

     He managed this consultation with exceeding secrecy, admitting only four or five of his confidents, on whom he most relied

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Further reading

• confident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• confident in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.