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confidant vs confident

confidant

Definitions

noun

  1. someone to whom private matters are confided

Examples

To deepen his predicament, because he is single, his advisers and confidants are generally undomesticated guys just like him.

But Robin Turner, the Vines's A&R man and long-term confidant at their UK label Heavenly, always thought his habit was a hindrance, not a help.

The reflections and soliloquies of Artamène recur; but a not unimportant, although subordinate, new character appears -- not as the first example, but as the foremost representative, in the novel, of the great figure of the "confidante" -- in Martésie, Mandane's chief maid of honour.

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confident

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adjective

  1. persuaded of; very sure
  2. not liable to error in judgment or action
  3. having or marked by confidence or assurance

Examples

The czar looked a bit edgy, but his son the czarevich seemed confident.

Confident, tanned and talkative, he looked the epitome of the champion he longs to be again.

Faceless, unqualified reviewers define our work, remove our colleagues from panels and routinely breach confidentiality.

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