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{
"term": "confident",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "feeling sure about your own ability to do things and be successful",
"sensetop": "confident about somethingconfident about doing somethingconfident in something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was in a relaxed, confident mood."
},
{
"text": "Beneath his confident and charming exterior lurked a mass of insecurities."
},
{
"text": "I was actually fairly confident about my chances.",
"contextForm": "confident about something"
},
{
"text": "The teacher wants the children to **feel confident** about asking questions when they don't understand.",
"contextForm": "confident about doing something"
},
{
"text": "He'd learned to be confident in his ability to handle anything life threw at him.",
"contextForm": "confident in something"
},
{
"text": "Going to university has made her more confident."
},
{
"text": "He was overly confident, perhaps to the point of arrogance."
},
{
"text": "He's becoming more confident as he gets older."
},
{
"text": "She gradually grew more confident."
},
{
"text": "She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident."
},
{
"text": "You get young people who appear to be socially confident, but inside they are a bundle of neuroses."
},
{
"text": "They gave a very confident performance of the piece."
}
],
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty", "Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "in", "of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "feeling certain that something will happen in the way that you want or expect",
"sensetop": "confident of somethingconfident of doing somethingconfident about somethingconfident (that)…",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The Democrats were confident of victory.",
"contextForm": "confident of something"
},
{
"text": "The team **feels confident** of winning.",
"contextForm": "confident of doing something"
},
{
"text": "We are confident about the future.",
"contextForm": "confident about something"
},
{
"text": "I'm confident that you will get the job.",
"contextForm": "confident (that)…"
},
{
"text": "He said he **remained confident** that the dispute could be resolved."
},
{
"text": "We're pretty confident we can win the case."
},
{
"text": "She was **quietly confident** that everything would go as planned."
},
{
"text": "I'm quite confident that you'll get the job."
},
{
"text": "We feel confident that these results are accurate."
},
{
"text": "I'm fully confident of winning the title."
},
{
"text": "I'm 95% confident of success."
},
{
"text": "They gave a confident prediction that things would improve."
},
{
"text": "He came out of the interview feeling quietly confident."
},
{
"text": "I'm very confident in our ability to maintain leadership."
}
],
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "in", "of"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒnfɪdənt/",
"audio": "xc/confident/xconfident__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːnfɪdənt/",
"audio": "xc/confident/xconfident__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from French confident(e), from Italian confidente, from Latin confident- ‘having full trust’, from the verb confidere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + fidere ‘trust’."
}