Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - confident

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you are confident about something, you are certain that it will happen in the way you want it to. I am confident that everything will come out right in time... Mr Ryan is confident of success... Management is confident about the way business is progressing. ? sceptical ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ that, ADJ prep • confidently I can confidently promise that this year is going to be very different. ADV: ADV with v 2. If a person or their manner is confident, they feel sure about their own abilities, qualities, or ideas. In time he became more confident and relaxed... = self-assured ADJ • confidently She walked confidently across the hall. ADV: usu ADV with v 3. If you are confident that something is true, you are sure that it is true. A confident statement is one that the speaker is sure is true. She is confident that everybody is on her side... ‘Bet you I can’, comes the confident reply. ADJ: oft ADJ that • confidently I can confidently say that none of them were or are racist. ADV: ADV with v