Entry Word: confident

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having or showing great faith in oneself or oneʼs abilities <youʼll need to be confident—even in the face of rejection—if you want to pursue a career in show business>

Synonyms assured, secure, self-assured, self-confident

Related Words hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine, upbeat; complacent, conceited, egoistic, egotistic (or egotistical), important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, vain, vainglorious; calm, collected, composed, cool, placid, self-possessed, serene, tranquil, undisturbed, unperturbed

Near Antonyms meek, timid, unassertive; modest, unassuming, unpretentious; jittery, jumpy, nervous

Antonyms diffident, insecure, self-doubting

2 having or showing a mind free from doubt <we were confident that the directions we had been given were accurate> — see certain 2