confidant vs confident
Definitions
noun
- 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.
Definitions
adjective
- persuaded of; very sure
- not liable to error in judgment or action
- 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.
Watching him strut confidently through the role is a joy.
