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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɔɱ.fɪ.dənt], [-dn̩t]
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑnfɪdənt/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fə.dənt], [-dn̩t]
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈkɔnfɪɖəɳʈ/, /kənfɪˈɖɛɳʈ/
• 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.

   He was confident of success.

2. Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.

   Antonyms: insecure, shy

3. (obsolete, derogatory) 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.

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名詞

confident (plural confidents)

1. Obsolete form of confidant.
   • 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg:

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

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     a certain Lawyer , a great Confident of the Rebels

Further reading

• “confident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “confident”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.