Word Meanings - SELF-CONFIDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant. -- Self`-con"fi*dent*ly, adv.
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- JUDGMENT
The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining - ABILITY
The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then - STRENGTHFUL
Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston. - CONFIDENT
See DRYDEN - STRENGTHENING
That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects. - CONFIDENTIAL
1. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk. 2. Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke. Confidential communication See Privileged communication, - STRENGTHENER
One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple. - STRENGTH
1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment. - CONFIDENTNESS
The quality of being confident. - RELIANT
Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting. - STRENGTHNER
See STRENGTHENER - CONFIDENTIALLY
In confidence; in reliance on secrecy. - RELY
To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in. Go in thy native innocence; - STRENGTHY
Having strength; strong. - CONFIDENTLY
With confidence; with strong assurance; positively. - STRENGTHING
A stronghold. - STRENGTHLESS
Destitute of strength. Boyle. - STRENGTHEN
1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak. - ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - AMENABILITY
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - SUITABILITY
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. - EQUABILITY
The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray. - COMMENSURABILITY
The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne. - DEFLAGRABILITY
The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle. - SINCERELY
In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely. - IMMEABILITY
Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot. - INEVITABILITY
Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford. - EFFUMABILITY
The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle. - CREATURELY
Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - TAMABILITY
The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness. - INSOCIABILITY
The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - INSURMOUNTABILITY
The state or quality of being insurmountable. - REPEALABILITY
The quality or state of being repealable. - INHERITABILITY
The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.