| 单词 | self-confident |
| 释义 | self-confident (once / 8024 pages) adj To be self-confident is to be secure in yourself and your abilities. When you are giving a presentation or a speech, it helps to be self-confident –- or at least to pretend that you are. Confidence is a feeling of trust in someone or something. To be self-confident is to have confidence in yourself. Self-confident people don't doubt themselves. This is usually a positive word: you can be self-confident without being cocky, arrogant, or overconfident. If you know what you’re doing, you have every reason to be self-confident. WORD FAMILYconfident: confidence, confidenter, confidently, overconfident, self-confident+/confidence: confidences, confidential, self-confidence/confidential: confidentiality, confidentially/overconfident: overconfidence, overconfidently USAGE EXAMPLESGradually, I stopped fidgeting and became more self-confident in public. Time(Dec 02, 2016) I am fairly self-confident about talking to a roomful of adults. New York Times(Feb 11, 2011) Taking over what was expected to be a government of national impasse, Mr. Peres left office with an image as a dignified, self-confident statesman. New York Times(Sep 27, 2016) adj showing poise and confidence in your own worth hardly more than a boy but firm-knit and self-confident Syn self-assured confident having or marked by confidence or assurance |
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