| 单词 | confident |
| 释义 | confidentconfident /ˈkɑnfədənt/ ●●● S3 W2 adjective 1sure that you can do something or deal with a situation successfully: Sandy gave her a confident smile.confident about I feel much more confident about my abilities these days.THESAURUSself-confident – confident that you can do things well and that other people will like you: He’s much more self-confident since he got a job.self-assured/self-possessed – confident and calm about what you are doing: She gave the speech in a slow self-assured voice.poised – behaving in a confident, calm, and graceful way: Catherine looked poised and ready as the audience waited for her to begin.secure – feeling confident, safe, and happy: The teachers at the school work hard to make the children feel secure.assertive – confident and willing to say what you want or demand things: Men tend to be more assertive than women.bold – confident and not afraid of offending people or do something dangerous or new: She was bold enough to tell her boss that he was doing the wrong thing.brash – confident in a loud way that annoys other people: Ed can be brash, but he does manage to sell cars.arrogant – too confident and showing that you think you are better or smarter than other people: He’s very smart, but he’s so arrogant no one wants to work with him.2[not before noun] sure that something will happen in the way that you want or expect: confident (that) Doctors are confident that he’ll make a full recovery.confident of He seems confident of victory in this year’s Senate race.confident about Investors are less confident about the economic situation.► see thesaurus at sure13sure that something is true: confident (that) We are confident we have done nothing wrong. [Origin: 1500–1600 Latin, present participle of confidere] → see also self-confident—confidently adverb |
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