self-confident

self-confident

English

Etymology

self- +‎ confident

Adjective

self-confident (comparative more self-confident, superlative most self-confident)

1. Confident in one's own abilities.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0108:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.

Synonyms

• selfsecure

Antonyms

• insecure

Translations

confident in one's abilities

Armenian: ինքնավստահ (hy) (inkʿnavstah) Chinese: Mandarin: 自信 (zh) (zìxìn) Czech: sebevědomý m Dutch: zelfverzekerd (nl) Finnish: itsevarma (fi) French: sûr de soi Georgian: თავდაჯერებული (tavdaǯerebuli) German: selbstsicher (de) Hungarian: magabiztos (hu) Irish: féinmhuiníneach Italian: spigliato (it), baldo (it), baldanzoso (it), sicuro di sé

Japanese: 自信がある (ja) (じしんがある, jishin ga aru) Kurdish: Kurmanji: jixwebawer (ku) Maori: whakatoatoa, māia Polish: pewny siebie (pl) m Portuguese: seguro de si Romanian: încrezător (ro) m Russian: уве́ренный в себе́ (uvérennyj v sebé) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: самопоуздан, самоуверен / самоувјерен Roman: samopòuzdān (sh), samoùveren (sh) / samoùvjeren (sh) Spanish: seguro de sí mismo, seguro (es)