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Courageous vs Confident - What's the difference?

courageous | confident |

As adjectives the difference between courageous and confident

is that courageous is of a person, displaying or possessing courage while confident is very sure of something; positive.

As a noun confident is

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courageous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.
    • the most courageous man I have ever met
  • Of an action, that requires courage.
    • a courageous deed

    Synonyms

    * (person ): bold, brave, hardy,valorous * (act ): bold, brave,heroic * See also

    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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