► confidentsure that you can do something or deal with a situation successfully: Sandy gave her a confident smile.
► self-confident confident that you can do things well and that other people will like you: He’s much more self-confident since he got a job.
► self-assured/self-possessed confident and calm about what you are doing: She gave the speech in a slow self-assured voice.
► poised behaving in a confident, calm, and graceful way: Catherine looked poised and ready as the audience waited for her to begin.
► secure feeling confident, safe, and happy: The teachers at the school work hard to make the children feel secure.
► assertive confident and willing to say what you want or demand things: Men tend to be more assertive than women.
► bold confident and not afraid of offending people or do something dangerous or new: She was bold enough to tell her boss that he was doing the wrong thing.
► brash confident in a loud way that annoys other people: Ed can be brash, but he does manage to sell cars.
► arrogant too confident and showing that you think you are better or smarter than other people: He’s very smart, but he’s so arrogant no one wants to work with him.