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Infallible vs Confident - What's the difference?

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Infallible is a related term of confident.


As adjectives the difference between infallible and confident

is that infallible is without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy while confident is very sure of something; positive.

As a noun confident is

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infallible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
    • He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible .
  • certain, sure.
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    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.}}

    Related terms

    * infallibility * infallibly

    Synonyms

    * faultless * perfect * indefective

    Antonyms

    * fallible * defective * faultful * faulty * imperfect

    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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