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# confident

«confident» in Mova's school dictionary: **feeling sure that you can do something well: a confident…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (confident, more confident, most confident); adverb (confidently)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Confident means feeling sure that you can do something well: a confident swimmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#m1)

2) Confident means sure that something will happen or is true: I'm confident we'll win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

At school, teachers help pupils feel confident speaking in front of the class, reading aloud and trying hard maths problems; confidence grows with practice and making mistakes. In safety, being confident to say «no» and to ask for help is important. In stories, a confident character may be brave or, if too confident, may make mistakes (overconfident, like the hare in «The Tortoise and the Hare»). Phrases: confident about, confident that, confident in, feel confident, self-confident.

### examples

- I feel confident about my spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#x1)
- She is a confident swimmer now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#x2)
- The teacher was confident that we would finish on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#x3)
- Practice makes you more confident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#x4)
- He walked confidently onto the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#x5)
- The hare was so confident he would win that he took a nap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#x6)
- They talked of Cinderella, and Tootles was confident that his mother must have been very like her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/#x7)

### note

Adjective; noun «confidence», adverb «confidently». Trap: «confident» (sure of yourself) vs «confidant» (a person you trust with secrets) — similar spelling. Opposite: unsure, nervous, shy. Being confident is different from showing off.

### In the corpora

- [A confident made-up answer from a bot is called a hallucination.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/12/)
- [Confident writing makes people trust it, but confidence is not proof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/7/)
- [Confident speakers still feel nervous; practising, breathing slowly and starting with a smile help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/14/)
- ["Confident speaker" on a report can mean the pupil talks over other children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/12/)
- [Children who greet adults themselves, instead of hiding behind a parent, seem confident and polite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «confident» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confident/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.