as in confident
having or showing great faith in oneself or one's abilities
he's a self-assured yachtsman who's not at all intimidated by the competition
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Recent Examples of self-assured
Usha Vance is confident and self-assured but is very much a woman who’s still coming to grips with her desire to live a somewhat normal life and the constraints of being married to one of the Republican Party’s most promising politicians.
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Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Randall King’s direction is self-assured, staging that needs to lean heavily towards letting these four masterful chefs cook, providing a smorgasbord of the quad’s most famed hits.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
What was once dismissed as a slow-burn subtropical capital now feels dynamic and self-assured—a city in its prime.
—Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
The entire defence looks more tentative, less self-assured than a year ago.
—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
But Nobody’s Girl floats free, self-assured and self-contained—a true American tragedy.
—Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
When the story begins in 1580, Will and Agnes are both arrestingly self-assured.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Protecting their peace and remaining self-assured has become a priority.
—Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
Her guitar-playing is as self-assured and precise as ever.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
Randall King’s direction is self-assured, staging that needs to lean heavily towards letting these four masterful chefs cook, providing a smorgasbord of the quad’s most famed hits.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
What was once dismissed as a slow-burn subtropical capital now feels dynamic and self-assured—a city in its prime.
—Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
The entire defence looks more tentative, less self-assured than a year ago.
—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
But Nobody’s Girl floats free, self-assured and self-contained—a true American tragedy.
—Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
When the story begins in 1580, Will and Agnes are both arrestingly self-assured.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Protecting their peace and remaining self-assured has become a priority.
—Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
Her guitar-playing is as self-assured and precise as ever.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-assured
confident
Adjective
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with less knowledge or skill feel overly confident.—
Dana Kelley,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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On a crucial third-and-10 just inside field goal range, Beck was confident with his pass to Marion to get well within range.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Self-assured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-assured. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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