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Confidante vs Confident - What's the difference?

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Confident is a related term of confidante.



As nouns the difference between confidante and confident

is that confidante is a female confidant while confident is obsolete form of lang=en.

As an adjective confident is

very sure of something; positive.

confidante

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A female confidant
  • A type of settee.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 20:
  • *:Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.
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    confident

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • very sure of something; positive
    • I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
  • self-confident

    • Antonyms

    * (self-confident) insecure, self-destructive

    Synonyms

    * (self-confident) self-assured

    Related terms

    * confidant * confidante * confide * confidence * confidential * overconfident * self-confident

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Dryden)
    (South)
    (Webster 1913)

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