{
    "term": "confident",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "feeling sure about your own ability to do things and be successful",
            "sensetop": "confident about somethingconfident about doing somethingconfident in something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was in a relaxed, confident mood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Beneath his confident and charming exterior lurked a mass of insecurities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was actually fairly confident about my chances.",
                    "contextForm": "confident about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The teacher wants the children to **feel confident** about asking questions when they don't understand.",
                    "contextForm": "confident about doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He'd learned to be confident in his ability to handle anything life threw at him.",
                    "contextForm": "confident in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Going to university has made her more confident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was overly confident, perhaps to the point of arrogance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's becoming more confident as he gets older."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gradually grew more confident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You get young people who appear to be socially confident, but inside they are a bundle of neuroses."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They gave a very confident performance of the piece."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty", "Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "in", "of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "feeling certain that something will happen in the way that you want or expect",
            "sensetop": "confident of somethingconfident of doing somethingconfident about somethingconfident (that)…",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The Democrats were confident of victory.",
                    "contextForm": "confident of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team **feels confident** of winning.",
                    "contextForm": "confident of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are confident about the future.",
                    "contextForm": "confident about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm confident that you will get the job.",
                    "contextForm": "confident (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He said he **remained confident** that the dispute could be resolved."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're pretty confident we can win the case."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was **quietly confident** that everything would go as planned."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm quite confident that you'll get the job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We feel confident that these results are accurate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm fully confident of winning the title."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm 95% confident of success."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They gave a confident prediction that things would improve."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He came out of the interview feeling quietly confident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm very confident in our ability to maintain leadership."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "in", "of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒnfɪdənt/",
                "audio": "xc/confident/xconfident__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːnfɪdənt/",
                "audio": "xc/confident/xconfident__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from French confident(e), from Italian confidente, from Latin confident- ‘having full trust’, from the verb confidere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + fidere ‘trust’."
}