confidant

nounclose friend

Synonyms for confidant

noun close friend

Antonyms for confidant

adviser/advisor

noun. person who recommends, teaches, or otherwise helps

Word Origin & History

1610s, confident, "(male) person trusted with private affairs," from French confident (16c.), from Italian confidente "a trusty friend," literally "confident, trusty," from Latin confidentem (nominative confidens), present participle of confidere "to trust, confide" (see confidence). The spelling with -a- came to predominate 18c. and might reflect the French pronunciation.

Example Sentences for confidant

At all events, this was a subject upon which I received no enlightening from their confidant.

Sooner or later it must have been so; and I want a confidant.

Everybody there was for the moment the confidant of his neighbour.

He thought she went to find a confidant outside, that she was preparing her treason.

The confidant, oddly, was a picture in the silent, awe-inspiring company-room.

The worst would be that he was in love and that he needed a confidant to work it.

She felt that she must make a confidant of some one, even though it was Katy, the maid.

The Queen, having no one else to treat as a confidant, often talked to him about Phillips.

By degrees, too, you become a kind of confidant of the whole household.

You must take his word for that; she is not likely to make a confidant of you.

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Antonyms for confidant

adviser/advisor

advisers

advisor

advisors

amigo

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