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Confident vs Panache - What's the difference?

confident | panache |

As adjectives the difference between confident and panache

is that confident is very sure of something; positive while panache is mixed, variegated.

As nouns the difference between confident and panache

is that confident is while panache is shandy (mix of beer and lemonade).

As a verb panache is

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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)

    External links

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    panache

    English

    (wikipedia panache)

    Noun

  • (countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
  • * 1896 — , Chapter 4
    • I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
  • (uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
  • * 1894 —
    • One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.

    Synonyms

    * (ornament on a helmet) hackle, plume, plumage * (flamboyant style) dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve