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
Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2025
Currently, the scientist can't be totally confident that these spikes are connected to supernovas.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 June 2025
Grassi Damiani is confident that despite the geopolitical instability and macroeconomic volatility, the family business will report a sales increase in 2025.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 13 June 2025
Companies that use a lot of fuel as part of their business and need their customers feeling confident enough to travel fell to some of the sharpest losses.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
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“Confident.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confident. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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adjective
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