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Confident vs Brash - What's the difference?

confident | brash |

As adjectives the difference between confident and brash

is that confident is very sure of something; positive while brash is impetuous or rash.

As nouns the difference between confident and brash

is that confident is obsolete form of lang=en while brash is leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.

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

    Noun

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

    brash

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • impetuous or rash
  • (Grose)
  • insensitive or tactless
  • impudent or shameless
  • Noun

  • Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
  • A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  • (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
  • (Lyell)
  • Broken fragments of ice.
  • (Kane)
    Derived terms
    * water brash * weaning brash

    Etymology 2

    Compare Amer. (bresk), (brusk), fragile, brittle.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (US, colloquial, dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables
  • (Bartlett)
    (Webster 1913) ----