confidante vs confident vs confidant
Definitions
noun
- a female confidant
Examples
At this present their go-between and confidante is a slave-girl who hath till now kept their counsel, but I fear lest haply anxiety get the better of her and she discover their secret to some one and the matter, being bruited abroad, might bring me to great grief and prove the cause of my ruin; for I have no excuse to offer my accusers.
You are her closest friend and confidante.
She became my best friend and confidante and penfriend.
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.
Faceless, unqualified reviewers define our work, remove our colleagues from panels and routinely breach confidentiality.
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.
