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Definition of Confidential

1. Adjective. Entrusted with private information and the confidence of another. "A confidential secretary"

2. Adjective. (of information) given in confidence or in secret. "Their secret communications"

3. Adjective. Denoting confidence or intimacy. "In confidential tone of voice"

4. Adjective. The level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified.

Definition of Confidential

1. a. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.

Definition of Confidential

1. Adjective. (meant to be) kept secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confidential

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confidential

confidence games confidence interval confidence intervals confidence level confidence limits confidence man confidence men confidence trick confidence trickster confidence tricksters

confidences confident confident(p) confidente confidentes confidential (current term) confidential adviser-advisee relation confidential information confidentialities confidentiality

confidentially confidentialness confidently confidentness confider confiders confides confiding confidingly confidingness

Literary usage of Confidential

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Constitutional History of New York: From the Beginning of the Colonial by Charles Zebina Lincoln (1906)
"The office of clerk of the police court of Syracuse is not confidential. He is appointed by the police justice, but his duties are defined by statutes. ..."

2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1842)
"I. THE confidential CLERK. And, in a word, but even now worth this, And now worth nothing. Shall I have the thought To think on this ?— Merchant of Venice. ..."

3. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"If the confidential friend of one is appointed, and the friend of another one ... If the confidential friends of all of them are left out, each one will at ..."

4. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1869)
"confidential subscriptions made for the purpose of making up the required sum ... Where by deducting such confidential subscriptions the required sum is not ..."

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