Successful vs Confident - What's the difference?
successful | confident |
Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; prosperous; fortunate; happy
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self-confident
As adjectives the difference between successful and confident
is that successful is resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; prosperous; fortunate; happy while confident is very sure of something; positive.As a noun confident is
obsolete form of lang=en.successful
English
Adjective
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Synonyms
* efficacious, effective, fruitful, rewarding, accomplished, profitableAntonyms
* unsuccessful * failedDerived terms
* successfully * successfulnessconfident
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.