Stable vs Confident - What's the difference?
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A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
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(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
to put or keep (horse) in a stable.
(rail transport) to park (a rail vehicle)
Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
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very sure of something; positive
self-confident
Stable is a related term of confident.
As nouns the difference between stable and confident
is that stable is a building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses while confident is .As adjectives the difference between stable and confident
is that stable is relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed while confident is very sure of something; positive.As a verb stable
is to put or keep (horse) in a stable.stable
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia stable) (etyl), from (etyl) estable, from (etyl) )Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stabl)Derived terms
* (rail transport) outstableEtymology 2
From (etyl) stabilis (itself from )Adjective
(en-adj)- He was in a stable relationship.
- a stable government
- In this region of chance, where nothing is stable .
Synonyms
* fixedAntonyms
* instable * mobileAnagrams
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
