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Definition of Self-confident
1. Adjective. Showing poise and confidence in your own worth. "Hardly more than a boy but firm-knit and self-confident"
Definition of Self-confident
1. Adjective. Confident in one's abilities. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-confident
Literary usage of Self-confident
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This consciousness of ancient lineage is in accordance with the high self-confident
tone of his mind, with his sympathy with the dominant genius of the ..."
2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Luke by Alfred Plummer (1896)
"It was not Pilate, nor any of the Sanhédrin, nor a mob of soldiers, but a single
waiting - maid, who frightened the self-confident Apostle into denying his ..."
3. Poetic and Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1891)
"Gascoigne's influence is the only one evident, and the royal author's self-confident
assumption: ..."
4. Poetic and Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1891)
"Gascoigne's influence is the only one evident, and the royal author's self-confident
assumption: ..."
5. Recollections of Windsor Prison: Containing Sketches of Its History and by John Reynolds (1839)
"... but he is gone, and his unhappy fate says to every self-confident professor—"
Let him that thinkest he standeth, take heed, lest he fall. ..."
6. The Beauties of Ireland: Being Original Delineations, Topographical by James Norris Brewer (1826)
"... bigoted or self-confident church, they caused the following inscription to be
placed over the principal gate : JEW, TURE, OR ATHEIST MAY ENTER HERE, ..."
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