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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.

 

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