Collocations for "confident"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "confident" in context.
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confident
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- a confident [person, woman, player, student]
- a confident [approach, try, strategy] to
- feeling confident about [winning, passing, getting the job]
- is confident in [herself, her abilities]
- confident in [Spanish, math]
- felt confident in [public, front of an audience]
- was confident (that) it would [work, succeed, sell, take off]
- were confident of [success, victory, winning]
- confident about [what, how, where, when]
- confident but [cautious, nervous, wary]
- confident, yet [cautious]
- confident and [relaxed, at ease, composed]
- a relaxed and confident [air, person, way]
'confident' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
ability
- address
- adult
- assertive
- assured
- blossom
- brash
- cocky
- dress
- eager
- familiar
- fit
- gripping
- hopeful
- individual
- off
- outer
- outgoing
- outset
- outside
- pitch
- quietly
- resilient
- right
- salesman
- seemingly
- self-confident
- sex
- skate
- sleek
- spring
- spruce
- step
- stroke
- swagger
- tone
- voice
- walk