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
Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 1 Aug. 2025
Yet, 60% aren't confident in their organization’s data-AI readiness to enable this outcome.
—Jesse Todd, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
That's an unfortunate update, considering Dallas's Executive Vice President Stephen Jones recently dropped a confident statement on the state of Revel's recovery.
—Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
Police chief confident no criminal cases were compromised At least two people, citing the issues within the Tempe forensics unit, asked a judge to throw out evidence in their criminal cases.
—Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 31 July 2025
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“Confident.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confident. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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