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Lighthearted vs Confident - What's the difference?

lighthearted | confident |

As adjectives the difference between lighthearted and confident

is that lighthearted is joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive not depressed or sad while confident is very sure of something; positive.

As a noun confident is

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lighthearted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive. Not depressed or sad.
    • The lighthearted young lovers ran over the hills.
  • Enjoyable lack of seriousness, not grave.
    • His lighthearted banjo was appreciated because it relieved the tension in tight situations.

    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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