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confident

[kon-fi-duhnt] / ˈkɒn fɪ dənt /




Usage

What are other ways to say confident? The adjective confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt. Positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism. Certain suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt. Sure, the simplest and most general term, expresses mere absence of doubt. 

Example Sentences

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Binderbauer says he sees a pathway to adequate energy confinement and is confident in TAE’s technology and experience building complex machines.

From The Wall Street Journal

Going into the trial, the company was confident in the strength of its position.

From BBC

“I’m confident other battery advancements will reach the market first, including our own lithium manganese rich chemistry, which achieves LFP-level costs but with 30 percent better energy density.”

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s especially true in dealing with new technologies where everyone isn’t as confident as Musk is about the size of a potential new market.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here, Coppola brings her respectable, confident disregard for the outsider’s opinion to the documentary format, churning out a film that feels proud but not pretentious.

From Salon