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Confident vs Ensured - What's the difference?

confident | ensured |

As an adjective confident

is very sure of something; positive.

As a noun confident

is .

As a verb ensured is

(ensure).

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)

    ensured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ensure)
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    ensure

    English

    Verb

    (ensur)
  • To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be
  • To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

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